Zencon Group Inc. · 4 months ago
Lead Scrum Master
Pittsburg, PA, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expZencon Group Inc. is seeking a Lead Scrum Master to join their team. The role involves coaching and facilitating high performing teams in agile practices, ensuring continuous value delivery and adherence to agile metrics, while working closely with various stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
Build and coach high performing teams and ensure continuous value delivery
Ensures the development process 'Scrum and Kanban' is understood and enacted
Oversees the team-level process and coaches the Pod team members; facilitates transparency, inspection and adaptation
Keep team organized and effectively facilitate agile meetings to ensure full Pod team engagement (stand-up, review, retrospective and planning meetings)
Removes development impediments (e.g., Pod team communication barriers, logistic challenges)
Enables close cooperation across all Pod team members and foster collaboration with other roles such as Release Train Engineer
Shields the Pod team from external interference and ensures the Pod team is functional and focused on the sprint goal(s)
Fosters self-sufficiency of the Pod team and is not a crutch for the Pod team
Ensures continuous improvement of the pod's maturity, by implementation of agile metrics to effectively track, report pod progress and adopt best practices
Implements standards set by the BNY Agile Practice and ensure adherence to BNY audit/compliance requirements
Actively engage in Agile Practice community events and contribute to the knowledge base
Strong knowledge on JIRA and MIRO and Ensure delivery of a quality increment, JIRA hygiene is maintained and reflects actual progress
Collaborate with RTE and Engineering lead for team release management activities
Possesses and Understands DevOps, CICD, Test Automation and can work with team and push the team to enhance tooling and automation maturity
Coach the Product Owner & Pod in effective backlog refinement and prioritization around best practices in design thinking, estimation, and story writing
Should be able to work and create JIRA dashboards, plan, manage tooling hygiene
Able to effectively use MIRO to facilitates events and promote collaboration
Strong tooling knowledge in JIRA and MIRO
Qualification
Required
Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) or Professional Scrum Master
Deep knowledge and experience with agile ways of working
Working experience as a Scrum Master – min 3 years
Total exp: at least 6 years
Ready to work from client office – Co-location with Pod members is mandatory
Build and coach high performing teams and ensure continuous value delivery
Ensures the development process 'Scrum and Kanban' is understood and enacted
Oversees the team-level process and coaches the Pod team members; facilitates transparency, inspection and adaptation
Keep team organized and effectively facilitate agile meetings to ensure full Pod team engagement (stand-up, review, retrospective and planning meetings)
Removes development impediments (e.g., Pod team communication barriers, logistic challenges)
Enables close cooperation across all Pod team members and foster collaboration with other roles such as Release Train Engineer
Shields the Pod team from external interference and ensures the Pod team is functional and focused on the sprint goal(s)
Fosters self-sufficiency of the Pod team and is not a crutch for the Pod team
Ensures continuous improvement of the pod's maturity, by implementation of agile metrics to effectively track, report pod progress and adopt best practices
Implements standards set by the BNY Agile Practice and ensure adherence to BNY audit/compliance requirements
Actively engage in Agile Practice community events and contribute to the knowledge base
Strong knowledge on JIRA and MIRO and Ensure delivery of a quality increment, JIRA hygiene is maintained and reflects actual progress
Collaborate with RTE and Engineering lead for team release management activities
Possesses and Understands DevOps, CICD, Test Automation and can work with team and push the team to enhance tooling and automation maturity
Coach the Product Owner & Pod in effective backlog refinement and prioritization around best practices in design thinking, estimation, and story writing
Should be able to work and create JIRA dashboards, plan, manage tooling hygiene
Able to effectively use MIRO to facilitates events and promote collaboration
Strong tooling knowledge in JIRA and MIRO
Preferred
Good to have working experience in bank or similar financial services firms
Company
Zencon Group Inc.
ZENCON GROUP: Empowering Digital Transformation, Service Excellence & Workforce Innovation Zencon Group is a global IT consulting firm and certified Microsoft Partner delivering high-performance digital solutions that help organizations modernize operations, elevate customer and citizen experiences, and scale with confidence.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase