Lead Scrum Master

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities?

Join our DTCC family, and you’ll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll be supported and surrounded by other experts as you learn new skills, advance your career, and see the impact of your efforts every day.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and other leave of absence
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing)

Why you'll love this job:

The Lead Scrum Master is a key member of a development squad with a well-defined software development life cycle process. The Lead Scrum Master applies a broad technical knowledge of the Agile methodology to manage the scrum process with geographically dispersed teams to deliver exceptional standards in product quality and timely, predictable delivery of projects. The Lead Scrum Master oversees multi-functional coordination and communication, requirements traceability, release management, test case management, and defect tracking concerns to keep delivery on track.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Agile Knowledge and expertise
• Understands Agile and relevant frameworks (e.g., scrum) to improve the success of the squad.
• Possess a comprehensive understanding of Agile tools, techniques, principles and values and apply this knowledge to the squad.
• Coach PO and squad to maintain a healthy and prioritized backlog with refined user stories.
• Successfully balance delivery timeframes and continuous iteration so that customer feedback is always incorporated.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums sessions to ensure the Squad and the others in the Tribe are aligned on priorities, dependencies and timelines.
• Coaching and Facilitation
• Provide role (PO, QA, Dev, etc.) based coaching and proactively facilitate coaching session with the squad.
• Coach the squad to consider how squad/product vision affects other squads we regularly interact with.
• Create a safe environment for all ceremonies to encourage active participation from all squad members.
• Facilitate and mediate conflicts within the squad.
• Reporting
• Ensure accurate and transparent communications to collaborators with concise metrics and updates on progress, risks, and impediments.
• Release Planning
• Supports Product Owner on release planning.
• Coordinate movement of code between Development, Testing, UAT and Production environments and a related planning, resourcing and scheduling activities.
• Project Management
• Project Planning
• Goal Setting
• Managing Job Schedules
• Coordinating Resources
• Managing and delivering projects to specification using a defined development process and delivering within budget and timeline
• Mind Set and Behavior
• Build meaningful relationships with squad members and resolve most issues leveraging your rapport and trust with squad members.
• Be an enthusiastic change agent and peer.
• Accept change and use it to drive continuous learning and process improvements within the squads.
• Continuously seek and act on feedback received to bring about positive changes. Servant Leadership
• Understand both the squad’s overall capacity and impediments that impact individual members of the squad. Work to create a team culture that values sustainable execution by not over-committing.
• Coach the squad to provide input for squad level decision making to achieve a common goal.
• Identify and work to resolve mindset impediments as they arise.
• Coach squad with knowledge and expertise as well as encourage experimentation to support their journey towards self-sufficiency.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Talents Needed For Success:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Additional Qualifications:

• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
• Experience in Agile Development, with Scrum Master (or similar) experience
• Previous software development lifecycle experience
• Scrum Master certification a plus

Who We Are:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.