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Company Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
When you join the Federal Reserve-the nation's central bank-you'll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We dedicate more than $1 billion to technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we're building a dynamic and diverse team for our future. Bring your passion and expertise, and we'll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth-along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.The Compute, Storage & Data Center within National IT has an immediate opening for a Scrum Master. The Scrum Master provides expertise and direction on a variety of product lines that NIT supports. Offers varying levels of project/product management oversight and directly influences activities on business-critical effort throughout the lifecycle of the product. Serves as a single point-of-contact for removing impediments and coaching the team through challenges. Uses industry-standard best practices in order to assure delivery of goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables, as well as compliance with all discipline processes and governance channels. Will provide coaching and guidance to matrixed teams. Advanced level position requires a seasoned professional with a full understanding and experience with execution of industry practices. Requires high level of experience and proficiency in field. What You Will Do:- Acts as a primary communication hub between various functional departments and the application development team to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time.
- Guards the agile team from external requests and disruptions.
- Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team.
- Coaches the agile team on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition.
- Drives development of release and sprint roadmaps.
- Removes impediments for the agile team.
- Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner/Product Manager/Product Line Manager and other stakeholders.
- Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
- Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities.
- Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution.
- Develops metric reports on project status, schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Requires 3-5 years of IT work experience in Project Management/Development where at least 2 years have been leading Scrum teams as a scrum master in an IT or software development setting.
- Requires knowledge of multiple agile development methodologies and frameworks.
- Requires understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
- Demonstrated experience in leading teams.
- SAFe or other Agile vendor certification a plus.
- Knowledge: Advanced knowledge pertaining to concepts and principles in Project/Vendor/Product Management areas. General knowledge of department/business lines, Reserve Banks, and / or System operations, policies, procedures and technologies.
- Communications: Excellent organizational and communication skills, creativity, attention to detail (compliance), and negotiation skills to interpret results, develop communications and recommend improvements. Able to present information within all settings in a credible, confident and influential manner. Communicates in a concise, direct and purposeful way. Excellent customer service skills and demonstrated ability to interact with anticipated audiences in a courteous, service-oriented manner.
- Risk Management: [The individual] is responsible for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making,and contributing to his or her function's risk management.
- Decision Making: Works independently on broad assignments or under general directions as to scope or objectives. Makes decisions within established or widely accepted standards. Achieves assigned/planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, training, business principles, and practical experience.
- Great medical benefits
- Pension and 401(k) with employer match
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee resource networks
- Paid volunteer leave
- Flexible work options
- Onsite amenities that make working here fun
- A requirement of this position is that the employee must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19; individuals who are unable to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief may request an accommodation from the Bank.
- Candidates should review the Bank's Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
- If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify rich.recruitment@rich.frb.org.
- Sponsorship is not available for this role. Selected candidate is subject to special background check procedures. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship or three or more years of Permanent Resident (Green Card) status.
- Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual's knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications/experience.
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