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Company Summary
Join our team! First American's Mortgage Solutions division provides lenders with solutions to originate, close and service quality loans. As a global leader in providing title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions, First American (NYSE: FAF) is an ideal place to build your career. We have been entrusted with helping our customers achieve and protect their dream of homeownership since 1889. We believe that our people are the key to the company's continued success, and we invest in diverse talents and backgrounds and empower our teams to achieve more than they could anywhere else. First American has created an award-winning culture and has been named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the fifth consecutive year and to more than 50 regional Best Places to Work lists. For more information, please visit www.firstam.com/mortgagesolutions/Job SummaryThe Senior Scrum Master leads scrum teams through the delivery of software product deliveries. This role supports software product development teams delivering on critical business initiatives. Plans, monitors, and manages internal projects from initiation through completion employing Scrum Master techniques in an Agile environment.Essential Functions- Lead the scrum team(s) using Agile methodologies and scrum best practices
- Organize and lead effective scrum ceremonies including daily standup, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Partner with Product Owners and Software Development teams to achieve business objectives
- Includes assisting with refining and maintaining product backlog, as needed
- Where necessary, help the Product Owner manage customer expectations and stakeholder communications
- Act as a liaison between the team and others, minimizing interruptions to the sprint, keeping the team focused on delivering a quality product
- Plan and execute within the commitments and roadmap developed
- Coach the team through maturity of agile and scrum processes, improving delivery and confidence in commitments
- Grow a safe and trusting team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or judgement with an emphasis on problem solving
- Identify, understand, and track impediments; help remove them and drive improvements to optimize how the team works
- Communication to all levels of the organization on progress and status
- Demonstrated experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban etc.)
- Skilled in servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
- Ability to lead all scrum ceremonies, document outcomes, and guide team members in best practices
- Demonstrated ability to build, develop, and coach high-performing software development teams
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment and work on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work
- Experience being on Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes/organizations/cultures)
- Demonstrated experience in issue identification and resolution
- Moderate to expert-level knowledge of JIRA and other agile tools to measure team productivity and report metrics
- Must possess and utilize exceptional communication (written and verbal) skills to keep teams operating at maximum efficiency while also ensuring senior leaders and executive management are informed of progress at all times
- Adaptable and flexible in a cross-functional environment
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Information Technology, or related fields or significant domain expertise
- 5-7 years of using Scrum agile methodology
- Must be a Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Experience training and managing Scrum teams with successful implementations of varying sizes and scope of software product deliveries
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