What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Scrum Master position at Stifel?
Summary
The Senior Scrum Master (SSM) is responsible for coaching and facilitation of agile teams through the entire SDLC. The SSM works with a fast growing team and facilitates alignment of agile methodologies across the greater Product and Technology organizations.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Fulfills the role of Scrum Master, leading multiple teams through the agile process in the delivery of critical, customer facing projects.
- Implements agile practices to facilitate the incremental and adaptive delivery of products within teams.
- Facilitates improvements in practices / processes within teams.
- Facilitates the adoption of key engineering practices such as Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, etc. to improve quality and reliability of team's deliverables.
- Build and document a successful and reproducible agile foundational framework that can be adopted by other teams within the organization.
- Facilitates team's progress toward the goal and commitments through improvement in quality, predictability, flow and velocity.
- Facilitates Scrum ceremonies including daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, team demos and retrospectives.
- Focuses on improving team dynamics, performance and management of conflicts all the while exhibiting lean agile and scrum principles in all actions.
- Supports and coaches the Product Owner, builds collaborative relationships and communicates extensively with the global community, identifies and removes impediments while maintaining a healthy and transparent relationship.
- Facilitates preparation and readiness for Agile Release Train (ART) ceremonies and supports the team and ART estimate, helps coordinate with other teams on the ART.
Qualifications
- Able to clearly communicate in verbal/non-verbal and written forms to articulate themselves. Able to have clear, professional and open dialogue with team members, other departments, partners/vendors, and direct management
- Demonstrates the ability to work together in a collaborative way.
- Demonstrates the ability to build relationships both inside and outside of individual team.
- Able to create plans to ensure work gets completed. Able to organize themselves to ensure that processes are followed and work is completed in a timely manner.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; or equivalent professional experience required
- 6 years of experience on a product development team using Agile/Scrum
About Stifel
Stifel is a more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.
While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.
Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
