Asset & Wealth Management-Scrum Master Engineer-Associate-Albany

Job Description:

The mission of the Agile team is increasing the value, transparency, and happiness of software delivery teams through Agile and related practices. We coach individuals, teams and programs. This forward-looking group defines scaling practices, team-level best practices, tooling, and reporting, and will always be on the front line of agility within the firm.

As a member of Agile, this Associate-level Scrum Master will help drive the success of individual teams while working with senior Agile professionals as a custodian for continuous improvement in how delivery teams become high-performing teams that consistently deliver customer value.

You Will:

Facilitate and support Agile events including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective

Influence team behavior towards continuous improvement through effective communication, ensuring alignment with organizational goals

Coach engineers, designers, product owners and subject matter experts in Agile practices, values and principles

Ensure Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines

Guide team members in story writing and refinement, backlog maintenance, prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs

Coach developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles

Work with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role

Track and remove impediments, and guide the team to remove impediments

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent industry experience

Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles

Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills

Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices

Comfortable with Scrum concepts like refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques

Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with Atlassian JIRA

3 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques