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Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an A gile Scrum Maste r for a Contract assignment with one of our premier Investment Banking clients in New York, NY.
Responsibilities:- Experience with scaled agile frameworks.
- Serve as Scrum Master leading Agile teams focusing on projects for High Net Worth Lending.
- Oversee project development and ensure effective completion and delivery.
- Work closely with Product Owners, other Scrum Masters and BAs to progress along squad agenda.
- Promote Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development, and testing organizations.
- Create a collaborative team environment; partner with Agile Coach to provide constructive feedback for continuous Agile improvements.
- Plan and conduct Agile meetings/ceremonies
- Sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand up, test plan and test cases reviews, sprint demos, retrospectives etc.
- Review and manage backlog and in-progress items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate.
- Deep understanding with the ability to maintain team metrics and report project statuses on a regular basis to Product Owner, and to project stakeholders.
- Strong Collaboration skills
- Experience and fluent understanding of Jira.
- Takes ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through scrum-of-scrum ceremony.
- Should be clearly experienced in giving presentations to audiences at various levels in the organization while also have active listening skills.
- Takes a lead role in overall release management, which includes end-to-end regression test coordination, ensure SDLC artifact adherence runbook coordination and deployment support.
- Coordinate with team on deployment preparations and execution.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or Information Technology
- 5 - 7 years of relevant experience in a large complex banking organization or major consulting firm acting in a Scrum Master and project management capacity.
- Skilled in Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
- Ability to understand system flows, interface details and system infrastructure.
- Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications.
- Ability to develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents, including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path.
- Ability to Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to improve Agile performance.
- Ability to review and manage backlog items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate.
- Experience in creating a collaborative team environment and provide constructive feedback to drive Agile maturity.
- Ability to proactively manage change in project scope, identify potential issues, and devise contingency.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- Detail oriented, organized, self-motivated, and ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
- Strong familiarity with Agile project management software/tools (e.g., JIRA, etc.).
- Proficient with Jira, MS Office applications: Excel, MS Project, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint.
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.
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