Scrum Master I
CoBank is a cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America, and they are seeking a Scrum Master I to support multiple scrum teams and ensure the successful execution of sprint goals. The role involves facilitating agile processes, encouraging team engagement, and monitoring team progress to drive improvements.
Responsibilities
- Assists with Agile process questions, clearing blockers, reinforcing transparency, and encouraging self-organization
- Facilitate the identification of relevant metrics and define the measurement system
- Cultivates an Agile mindset in problem solving and applying system thinking to uncover bottlenecks
- Encourages engagement between teams and stakeholders
- Ensures that the project risks raised are escalated and highlighted appropriately
- Empowers managers to partner with business stakeholders and make more strategic decisions
- Ensures the team understands agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions
- Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes
- Monitors scrum team progress and performance to encourage team improvements
- Assisting the Product Owner with preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders
- Provides input into Agile governing policies in view of the organization's principles to support Agile-based approaches
- Maintains Platform-wide awareness and focus to assist with resource allocation and ensuring collaboration
- Facilitating Scrum of Scrums in addition to facilitating their own individual scrum teams
- Represents platform in organization-wide scrum of scrums and can present platform concepts to other project teams
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned
Skills
- High school diploma or GED required
- Prior Experience in Banking, Financial or other highly regulated industry, required
- Good people skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Good facilitation skills
- Good communication skills
- Good interpersonal and leadership skills
- Good conflict management skills
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Novice experience with modern software engineering techniques such as Continuous Integration, build, deliver, test-driven development and other automated acceptance testing techniques
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
- Prior Experience serving as Scrum Master, preferred
Benefits
- Time-Off Packages, boasting over 15 days of vacation, 10 paid sick days and 11 paid holidays
- Competitive Compensation & Incentive
- Hybrid work model: flexible arrangements for most positions
- Benefits Packages, including Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Disability, AD&D, and Life Insurance
- Robust associate training and development with CoBank University
- Tuition reimbursement for higher education up to $10,000 per year
- Outstanding 401k: up to 6% matching and additional 3% non-elective contribution
- Community Impact: United Way Angel Day, Volunteer Day and Associate Directed Contribution
- Associate Resource Groups: creating a culture of diversity and inclusion
- Recognize a fellow associate through our GEM awards
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