Scrum Master

VBridgeIT Inc.  is seeking a scrum master with banking and financial experience to join a team with one of our financial clients.

Responsibilities: 

• Work with the Product owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information  
• Facilitate groups of 30 or more and coach multiple teams across the product  
• Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts  
• Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvement events  
• Communicate organizational impediments to leadership; clear impediments for the team  
• Embrace the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instill the same in the team(s) you coach  
• Coach product owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empirical planning  
• Appreciate the depths of Lean and Agile practices and principles, help teams appreciate them  
• Teach systems thinking and servant leadership  
• Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team 
  
  

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:  

• Associate degree or equivalent experience  
• Expertise with Agile and Scrum frameworks and their application in Product Development and delivery organization  
• Ability to coach and mentor  
•  Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels  
•  Sound understanding of Scaling framework such as LeSS and various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban, XP  
• Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the team(s)  
• Possess an executive presence and ability to coach multiple teams across the product  
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology strategies 
• Ability to leverage capabilities across the firm to solve local problems