Scrum Master

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 10
**The Team**:
S&P Global Market Intelligence provides essential information to our customers. We strive to deliver solutions that are sector-specific, data-rich, and hyper-targeted for evolving business needs.
With over 20,000 employees working across 95 offices all around the world, the diverse and vibrant community at S&P Global is unlike one you’ll find anywhere else. This is an opportunity to work closely with business and technology stakeholders to define and deliver solutions in a highly collaborative, agile environment. The primary mandate of the CIQ ART is to maintain the performance and stability of the Capital IQ platform which is extremely critical to the continued success of the Desktop business. We ensure the Platform is scalable for the increased usage growth, modernize where necessary, perform mandatory maintenance, BAU and general systems upkeeping.
**The Impact**:
We are in search of a motivated individual who is ready to take their career to the next level with a leader in the market. Do you enjoy solving problems, using technology, collaborating with people to define and execute innovative solutions?
The Scrum Master position at S&P Global works with stakeholders and team members across regions to facilitate the delivery of value using Agile practices. The Scrum Mater contributes significantly to their team’s success by acting as a servant leader and coaching towards continuous improvement while executing on delivering business priorities.
**What’s in it for you**:
An opportunity to lead experienced development teams working on front-end and/or back-end functionality.
An opportunity to build relationships and engage with stakeholders across the organization as you manage the delivery of critical features for the platform.
An opportunity to lead global teams consisting of seasoned Software Developers and Quality Assurance Engineers
An opportunity to learn and grow your skillset as you drive Agile maturity and operational excellence within a dynamic global organization.

**Responsibilities**:
In this role, you will be working with a team of enthusiastic members supporting our critical technology systems and guiding our business partners & end users with industry best practices, solution design, and creating long term value to our customers.
Act as Servant leader to an Agile team.
Oversee project timelines, dependencies, and milestones, ensuring comprehensive project plans are developed and maintained.
Facilitate clear communication among all stakeholders, aligning parties throughout the project lifecycle.
Evaluate and optimize existing SQL queries for performance improvement, leveraging understanding of database structure and data analysis skills.
Conduct business analysis and requirement gathering sessions to align database solutions with stakeholder needs.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring effective database functionality.
Manage scope changes, risks, and escalate issues as needed, coordinating testing efforts and assisting with technical requirement translation for scrum teams.
Educate Agile teams to maximize efficiency and performance from agile best practices and values.
Coach Agile scrum teams in self-organization and continuous improvement.
Guide the Agile team to consistently deliver customer value.
Manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies within and across Scrum teams.
Facilitate Scrum events such as Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, Retrospectives and Quarterly planning.
Work with Product Owners to ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by every member of the Agile team.
Establish and maintain open and clear lines of team communication to facilitate status transparency.
Work with peers, managers, and communities of practice to increase the effectiveness of Agile delivery.
**What We’re Looking For**:
5-9 years of experience in the role of Scrum master.
Experience leading teams in delivery using Agile practices.
Team-first, empathetic, servant leader with a growth mindset.
Communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, testers, and product owners, to address and resolve bugs efficiently.
Familiarity with version control systems such as Git or SVN to manage code changes related to bug fixes.
**Business analysis proficiency**: Experience in gathering and analyzing business requirements, translating them into technical specifications, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment between business needs and database solutions.
**Requirement gathering expertise**: Ability to conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, and requirements gathering sessions to elicit, prioritize, and document business requirements related to database functionality and performance.
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