Senior Scrum Master (40000699)

Job Purpose

Enable Delivery Agility through highly mature Scrum adoption at teams, initiative, and/or wider organization

Key Accountabilities (1)

Enabling Agility 

1. Coach teams in self-management & cross-functionality. 
2. Help teams to focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done (DoD).
3. Train & coach Product Owners with techniques for effective Product Goal definition, Product Backlog management, release planning, that maximize business value.
4. Train & coach teams, initiatives & stakeholders to apply empirical approach, incremental & iterative development, lean thinking, Scrum values. 
5. Plan, train, coach, implement, improve Scrum adoption for initiative and/or wider organization
6. Ensure Scrum events take place, positive & productive within timebox.

Key Accountabilities (2)

Enabling Performance 

1. Adopt appropriate stances for teams: Trainer, Mentor, Coach, Leader, Facilitator, Manager, Change Agent.
2. Help teams to improve effectiveness & efficiency via Scrum, e.g., maturity assessment, improvement plans, training & coaching activities.
3. Cause the removal of impediments to teams’ progress. 
4. Train & coach managers on empowering people, enabling & nurturing self-managing & high performing teams. 
5. Train & coach teams to use Agile tools, e.g., Jira, Confluence, Miro, Trello.

Key Accountabilities (3)

Enabling Outcomes 

1. Train & coach to help teams, initiative, and/or wider organization to apply evidence-based management (EBM) 

Success Profile - Qualification and Experiences

- Bachelor or higher degree in Banking, Finance, Technology, Business Administration, Information technology or related disciplines. 
- Professional Scrum certificates, e.g., A-CSM, CSP-SM or PSM II, PSM III. Others like PMP, PMI-ACP, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile Project Management, is a plus.
- 7 years of experience in corporate, preferably banking or fin-tech organization.
- Experienced in coaching & scaling Scrum for multi-teams, initiative, and/or wider organization, via LeSS, Nexus, Scrum at Scale, Scrum of Scrum, etc. 
- Experienced in training, coaching, mentoring different roles, e.g., Product Owner, Designer, Developer, Tester, Manager.
- Be team player, a servant leader with strong facilitation, conflict resolution, communication, motivation, interpersonal skills. 
- Familiar with engineering best practices (e.g., TDD, ATDD, CICD, automation)
- Familiar with common tools, e.g., Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQ