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Overview: It's an exciting time to join Fisher Investments; we're investing in the future of our firm's technology and information security. Our business is growing internationally, which emphasizes the need to build an unparalleled team that promotes future global growth through strategic solutions and progress. We are important to supporting our firm's diverse businesses, and we're excited to continue solidifying that foundation as we add more experienced technologists to our Technology team.
The Opportunity: As Application Development Scrum Master, you will manage the growth and well-being of our technology teams by promoting an agile mindset that follows agile principles, engaging both with the team and external groups to remove impediments toward progress, and establish a working environment where the team can be efficient. You will report to the Application Development Team Leader in our Shared Business Services group. The Day-to-Day:- Guide your teams to a Agile mindset using Scrum while maintaining our culture and spirit
- Organize Scrum meetings, such as the Daily Scrum meeting, Sprint Planning, and the Sprint Retrospective
- Help remove impediments to your teams by removing obstacles or assisting teams members to find the right people to help clear the roadblock
- Mentor team members and project partners in Agile frameworks and methods to reach the fullest potential for delivering high-quality solutions
- Manage User Acceptance Testing, to ensure partners have the solutions they need before deployment
- Promote the activities and interactions for 2 to 3 Scrum teams concurrently
- Help shape standards for documentation practices for user stories, user requirements, functional specifications, testing plans, and defect tracking
- Establish and measure program feature success metrics to improve features to promote usage and customer value
- Coach the Scrum Team in Product Backlog management to create an understanding of what is to be delivered, why it needs to be delivered, and what success is
- Build partnerships with business and engineering partners across multiple internal organizations
- Participate in Scrum Master group meetings to improve the direction and quality of our Scrum Masters and Scrum teams
- 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
- Certified Scrum Master or proof of qualifications as a Scrum Master
- BS in a Technical Discipline or equivalent work experience
- Servant Leadership practitioner and Agile mentoring experience
- Advocate Agile, Scrum, and other collaborative working practices with expert knowledge
- Competent Scrum project management using JIRA, Confluence, GIT/TFS, VersionOne, or ServiceNow
- Experience working with a transitioning technology group moving from traditional project management (i.e. waterfall) methodologies to Agile methodologies (Scrum)
- Conflict resolution experience working with multi-diverse teams
- Identify dysfunctions within the team and help resolve the same either by the team or by bringing it to the notification of leadership at the right time
- 100% coverage of premiums for health, vision and dental insurance
- A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
- 20 days of PTO, plus 9 paid holidays
- 8 weeks paid Primary Caregiver Parental Leave
- Back-up Child Care Program available, offering up to 10 days annually
- A cumulative learning and development framework customized for every employee
- An award-winning work environment - we're Great Place to Work Certified, and Top Workplace winners from The Oregonian
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