Scrum Master - Exp

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems.

We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life.

In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more.

All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The ISN Portfolio Enablement and Agile team has an immediate opening for a Scrum Master-Experienced reporting to Senior Manager IT Technology.

The Scrum Master is a member of a product team who has a primary responsibility to help the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals.

The scrum master facilitates the scrum processes, protects the team from interference, and helps remove impediments so that the team can deliver the sprint goal.

They foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous process flow, and relentless improvement.

What You Will Do:


* Plans, leads, organizes, and motivates one cross functional team of medium complexity.


* Facilitates and helps coordinate sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives. 


* Collaborates with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning and keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution.


* Works with Product Owners to drive development of release and sprint roadmaps.

Creates team working agreements. 


* Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities.


* Develops metric reports on schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity, burn-down and cycle time.


* Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualifications:


* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience with 3 to 5+ years of relevant work experience.


* Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMI-ACP and/or other Agile related certifications required.


* SAFe Ceritifcation


* Progressive knowledge pertaining to concepts and principles in functional area, especially the ability to coach the team on Agile practices and adherence to Agile methodology. 


* General knowledge of department/business lines, Reserve Banks, and / or System operations, policies, procedures and technologies.


* Strong interpersonal, negotiation...