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Personalized Investing (PI) is an engineering organization comprised of more than 200 engineers whose mission is to build innovative products that try to help improve the financial well-being of our clients. PI is comprised of three distinct teams: Thematic Investing, Digital Advice and Financial Planning. Thematic Investing is the main product from Motif which is being rebuilt for Schwab. Digital Advice includes Schwab's robo-advisory product which builds, monitors, and automatically rebalances a diversified portfolio based on investors' goals. Financial Planning focuses on offering financial planning as a service throughout Schwab. These three areas come together to give our clients a very tailored, unique, and personalized investing experience. We are looking for a talented Scrum Master to join our team. What you are good at- Supporting agile based SDLC for software development creating necessary standards, tools and best practices
- Participating and supporting development and software delivery
- Organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting
- Maintaining process and metrics documentation
- Ensuring the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
- Updating agile tracking systems to provide transparency using Jira.
- Supporting the development managers and project leads as necessary
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and predictability
- Assisting team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition and capacity management
- Identifying and removing impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
- Facilitating discussion, meetings and conflict resolution
- Empowering the teams to self-organize
- Improve the productivity of the sprint teams through use of metrics and retrospectives.
- Ensuring the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable
- Participating in the organization and planning of the development schedule based on methodology that has been developed to create a cohesive plan with identifiable platform dependencies, and major milestones, and manages the agreed project user stories and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters
- Must be a Certified Scrum Master
- 5+ years as a Scrum Master
- 5+ years of technology experience
- Experience with Scrum methodologies
- Experience in leading teams new to Agile
- Must be an excellent team leader with the ability to influence and negotiate
- Experience using Work Tracking Tools, i.e. Jira, Rally, TFS
- Experience with negotiating prioritization between Product Owners and Technical leadership
- Highly adaptable to a constantly changing environment
- Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse and a geographically dispersed team
- Must be self-motivated, as well as, creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
- Must be collaborative in driving decisions and able to deal with all levels of management and stakeholders
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