Scrum Lead - Data

• Provide leadership building multiple high-performing Agile teams, coaching team members in the execution of the practices and responsibilities of their individual roles and as a team together
• Champion the adoption and improvement of Scrum practices on direct and indirect teams
• Lead increment & sprint planning sessions, daily scrum, backlog refinement, and sprint retrospective meetings.
• Building a trusting, safe environment where problems are raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged with an emphasis on problem solving
• Responsible for the health and planning of the sprint backlog and prioritizations of epics, features and stories as part of the cadence for regular delivery of value to the organization.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners to prepare and clarify the product backlog
• Document and lead remediation efforts and removal of impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
• Consistently demonstrate a bias for action with technical aptitude to deliver customer value
• Collaborates with Agile coaches to maintain accountability and compliance with the companys defined Agile delivery methodology
• Leverage Jira and Confluence to elicit and define business and technical epics, features and stories
• Provide high level product readouts for senior leadership
• Build great partnerships and relationships with globally distributed cross-functional partners (e.g. Business, Product, Technology, Design, Architecture, Legal, Compliance, et al.)
• Assure adherence to banking audit and regulatory practices in the completion of delivered assets to bank and customer users, ensuring full compliance with corporate standards
• Build, maintain and report on team financials and budgets (CapEx/OpEx)

• Leadership
• Customer Focus
• Collaborative: Ability to partner with cross-functional partners to achieve goals at various levels throughout the organization and lead others to do so by example
• Communicative and social: Must be able to communicate (written/verbal) well with all levels of the organization
• Innovative problem solving with strong data analysis skills
• Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable & effective workplace
• Autonomy/Empowerment: Must be able to guide team(s) to self-organization
• Open/Transparent: Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to both business and technology and build trust amongst partners
• Conflict resolution: Must be able to facilitate discussion at the team level and suggest alternatives or different approaches
• Continual improvement: Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and team members
• Facilitative: Must be able to lead by example and demonstrate value-add principles to product development scrum team(s)
• Assertive: Experience with working teams in adhering to Agile/Scrum/Lean concepts and principles
• Brings a high-energy and passionate outlook to the job and can influence those around her/him
• Possesses excellent inter-personal skills with amazing written/verbal communication skills
• Good problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to coach and mentor all roles on a development scrum team

• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ years previous experience in the Scrum Master role for technology delivery
• Previous experience with coaching Business and Technology teams through the adoption of Agile practices.
• Previous experience with Agile collaboration tools e.g. Jira and Confluence
• Experience organizing and executing team training and mentoring
• Experience with distributed Agile teams and Scrum
• Ideally the candidates will have some SDLC experience as Company follows their SDLC lifecycle and artifacts.
• Scrum Lead will work in Data so having Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Lakes, or overall Data-type experience is a plus. Technical aptitude for this person is important as this Scrum Lead will be working with data engineers and must be able to interpret, understand and communicate at both technical and non-technical levels.

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)/ Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner

Last updated on Oct 25, 2023