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Senior Scrum Master

extra holidays - extra parental leave

Remote:

Full Remote

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

Texas (USA), United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

5+ years practicing Scrum in software business, Strong knowledge of Agile principles, Proficient in JIRA and Agile frameworks, Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor.

Key responsabilities:

Conduct Scrum ceremonies for multiple teams
Facilitate collaboration across cross-functional teams

Self Financial, Inc. Fintech: Finance + Technology Scaleup https://www.self.inc/

201 - 500 Employees

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Job description

Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.

We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.

Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

Self Financial is looking for a Senior Scrum Master to support the Engineering teams to be a servant leader, building and leading successful scrum teams to deliver technology products and services.

What would you be doing? Working cross functionally with Program, Engineering, IT, Product, Compliance, and more this candidate will:

Perform the role of Scrum Master for one or more teams, leading multiple, simultaneous initiatives
Practice the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, accountability, and practice continuous improvement
Facilitates Scrum ceremonies i.e., Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
Helps the team define norms/agreements, like a Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, and enforces the agreements
Ensures the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog (in collaboration with the PO
Acts as an Agile Coach, promoting and coaching the Agile mindset and principles, empowering the team to become self-managing and fulfill their cross-functional potential
Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
Provide status reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs), schedule, resources, and milestone delivery
Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the team
Work closely with Product and Program Management to manage and deliver key initiatives
Coach and mentor in Scrum and Agile process

What you would bring:

5+ years practicing Scrum in a software business
Strong Communication skills and ability to collaborate across multiple departments
Self-starter, self-driver; bring expertise to the table to drive process improvements backed by data
Strong knowledge of agile principles and techniques (ex. Scrum / XP / Kanban) and scaled agile frameworks such as the Scaled Agile Framework for the Enterprise (SAFe)
Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor
Excellent repertoire of team building activities and collaborative leadership
Skilled at optimization of teams and processes
Proficient in JIRA
Proven track record of assisting the Product Owner and Development Team in delivering business value
Experience in identification and resolution of organizational impediments that impact team maturity and performance
Enables the team to become high performing through collaboration and a relentless focus on continuous improvement including cross-skilling across the team
Ability to facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across teams, stakeholders, and executives, including external teams, business partners, and other Agile Release Trains/programs
Change and Release Management experience and knowledge
Ability to influence and guide business and technology leaders on changes that enable Agility
Experience in facilitating significant improvements to the operating model and the end-to-end delivery process
Experience in Kanban also, a plus
Ability to analyze and think quickly to resolve conflict
Experience in dealing with ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment
Motivated and a hands-on team player, persistent, and results oriented
Able to consistently meet deadlines and self-manage through shifting priorities and demands
High level of positive energy, enthusiasm, and self-motivation

Tools & Systems:

Atlassian Enterprise Suite (Jira, Jira Service Desk, Confluence, etc.)
G-Suite & Slack (or similar communication platforms)

Benefits and Perks:

We have the compensation and benefits you expect. But there's one thing that Self Financial can offer that many companies cannot: we can positively change the world, while making a profit. We are a team of Builders, empowering our customers to build their dreams. We have a Do the Right Thing ethos in all that we do, and we hope you value that approach, too.

Our perks include: