Scrum Master

Fiserv is a Fortune 500 company and a global leader in Fintech and payment solutions. We’re always innovating in ways to connect financial institutions, corporations, merchants, small businesses, and consumers to each other – quickly, reliably, and securely. With more than 6 million merchant locations across the world, over 1.4 billion global accounts on file, an average of 12,000 financial transactions every second, and nearly 10,000 financial institution clients, Fiserv moves money and information in a way that moves the world.

What does a successful Scrum Master do at Fiserv?

The Scrum Master is an opportunity to be part of a delivery team that is building the Commerce Hub platform. Built to deliver innovation through simple, fast integrations, the Commerce Hub is the most powerful omnichannel platform. With developer-friendly, flexible communication standards, unified APIs, and pre-certified integrations the Commerce Hub reduces development time and accelerates speed to market.

A true single-entry point and intelligent orchestration layer provides access to the latest, most popular commerce experiences through merchants' existing infrastructure. With less ongoing maintenance and fewer operational costs, merchants can focus on creating new ways for consumers to discover and interact with them.

What you will do:

• Provide Agile leadership to distributed Product development teams
• Maintain and grow an environment that enables teams to embrace agile values, enact agile practices, continually assess and abide by agreements, and continually improve
• Be committed to meet/exceed the needs of the teams’ customers
• Provide clear and concise communication, both written and verbal
• Use data to assess progress, areas needing improvement, increase predictability
• Facilitate and manage communications to stakeholders, the broader project team, and program leaders
• Maintenance of artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown Charts, etc.
• Proactively identify potential obstacles and eliminate them for and with the teams through active solutions and quality assurance measures (moderation and mediation)
• Close cooperation and coordination with Product Owners, agile teams, and other Scrum Masters
• Contact for all questions of agile software development and impulse generator for further development of agile processes and team development
• Protect and challenge the Scrum team in self-organization and taking responsibility to achieve the goals without losing sight of the Program goals
• Provide important artifacts in the form of meeting notes, documentation, follow-up items, etc.
• Prepare Sprint Status and Capacity Estimations reporting for the Development Team(s)

What you will need to have:

• 10 years of hands-on experience with atleast 5+ as a Scrum Master
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Required
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite, Clarity, Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence)
• Must have successful experience in delivering to external clients
• Ability to work independently and with minimal direction
• Good methodological knowledge regarding moderation, mediation, change management and team development as well as the ability of decision-making and fact-finding

What would be great to have:

• Other role experience – Developer, QA, PM, BA
• Experience in digital commerce/payments
• Safe Agile experience
• Building systems and making updates with system performance, stability and reliability in mind