• Act as Scrum Master, with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work
• Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings
• Ensure and facilitate cross-team coordination
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing, and report team progress to senior management
• Support the Product Owner and Feature Team in their quest to do everything possible to delight customers
• Possesses conflict resolution, does conversation by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect.

• This person should be extremely knowledgeable in, and personify Scrum and agile.

• Scrum Master Certification preferred

• 3-4 years’ experience being Scrum Master on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of relevant agile metrics and charts (e.g. burndown, velocity, burnup, CFD) and ability to interpret them and provide appropriate guidance and coaching to the team
• Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Proven analytic and problem solving skills including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
• Proven verbal and written communication skills to communicate effectively to customers, managers and technical staff
• Experience in the Financial, Software, and/or Digital sectors strongly preferred

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