Citi
Scrum Master- Job Type: Full Time
- Industry Type: IT Sector
- Industry Location: Irving
- Experience: NA
- No. of Positions: 1
- Primary Skills: See job description
- Secondary Skills: See job description
- Job Location: Irving, Texas
- Posted Date: Posted today
Job Description
Job Overview:
As a Scrum Master, you'll act as a servant leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication to management and to the team. Our Scrum Masters are open, approachable, collaborative, and enjoy working with passionate people. They're proactive in solving problems to help their team(s) succeed. The Scrum Master drives Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. They embrace agility as a practice. The Scrum Master is responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals and has a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes.
Our mission of enabling growth, progress, intellectual curiosity, and problem solving is essential to our success. We bring people together with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We support teamwork, thinking big, and taking risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on relevant projects, while building an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. We're excited to see what you'll bring to our team.
Responsibilities:
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Work with the Product owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information
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Facilitate groups and coach multiple teams across the product
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Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
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Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvement events
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Communicate organizational impediments to leadershipandclear impediments for the team
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Embrace the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instill the same in the team(s) you coach
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Coach product owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empirical planning
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Appreciate the depths of Lean and Agile practices and principles, help teams appreciate them
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Teach systems thinking and servant leadership
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Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team
Qualifications:
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Professional Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Master Certification
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Expertise with Agile and Scrum frameworks and their application in Product Development and delivery organization
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The use of Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket
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Ability to coach and mentor
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Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels
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Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the team(s)
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Possess an executive presence and ability to coach multiple teams across the product
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Knowledge of industry-wide technology strategies
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Ability to leverage capabilities across the firm to solve local problems
Education:
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BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
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Job Family Group:
Technology-------------------------------------------------
Job Family:
Infrastructure------------------------------------------------------
Time Type:
Full time------------------------------------------------------
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