Asset & Wealth Management-Scrum Master Engineer-Associate-Albany
Goldman Sachs
Job Description:
The mission of the Agile team is increasing the value, transparency, and happiness of software delivery teams through Agile and related practices. We coach individuals, teams and programs. This forward-looking group defines scaling practices, team-level best practices, tooling, and reporting, and will always be on the front line of agility within the firm.
As a member of Agile, this Associate-level Scrum Master will help drive the success of individual teams while working with senior Agile professionals as a custodian for continuous improvement in how delivery teams become high-performing teams that consistently deliver customer value.
You Will:
Facilitate and support Agile events including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
Influence team behavior towards continuous improvement through effective communication, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
Coach engineers, designers, product owners and subject matter experts in Agile practices, values and principles
Ensure Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines
Guide team members in story writing and refinement, backlog maintenance, prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs
Coach developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles
Work with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role
Track and remove impediments, and guide the team to remove impediments
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent industry experience
Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
Comfortable with Scrum concepts like refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with Atlassian JIRA
3 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques