Scrum Master - Financial Services

What you'll do :

- Manage multiple cross-functional teams for product development and/or R&D programs

- Facilitate Program Increment (PI) planning to synchronize with Agile Release Train (ART) cycles

- Support Product Owners to create and refine product backlogs to ensure readiness for upcoming sprint(s)

- Own all key scrum ceremonies including the facilitation of stand-ups, stakeholder demos, retrospectives, scrum-of-scrum meetings

- Proactively clear impediments, identify risks, issues, dependencies and work with relevant teams to address them

- Provide visibility to management around status of deliverables, highlighting risks and needs for intervention

- Study quality metrics and address root causes for defects and time loss

- Establish program management practices, standards and metrics

- Manage team-level P&L to meet margin and utilization targets

Basic qualifications :

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in science, computer science, economics, accounting, business administration

- 8+ years of experience creating and delivering high quality program management, including metric-driven reporting on all outcomes

- Strong communication skills

- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

Preferred qualifications :

- A minimum of 2-3 years experience in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and/or any other popular Agile practices and frameworks (e.g. Lean, Kanban)

- Data-driven, analytical approach to problem solving

- Experience working in a product-based IT company and/or banking and financial services company