Scrum Master

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 10
S&P Global - Ratings
**About the Role**: Scrum Master
**The Team**: Agile Practices is a team of dedicated professionals supporting our critical technology systems while fostering collaboration and innovation. We guide our teams and stakeholders by implementing agile practices, driving solution design, and creating long term value to our customers.
**Responsibilities and Impact**:
Act as servant leader and coach, guiding the team and organization on agile values, principles, and practices to empower the team to embrace self-organization and drive continuous improvement.
Facilitate Scrum events including Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, and Retrospectives to ensure team alignment and continuous delivery of value.
Manage risks, dependencies, and remove impediments while fostering an environment of collaboration, self-organization, and accountability within the team.
Partner with global stakeholders and Product Owners to align on priorities, ensure the readiness of features and user stories to enable the team to deliver high-quality outcomes.
Promote a culture of continuous improvement and learning by encouraging experimentation to optimize the team’s ability to deliver value effectively.
Collaborate with peer Scrum Masters and RTEs to share knowledge, enhance agile effectiveness, and drive agile maturity across teams and the organization.
Foster transparency by clearly communicating team progress, challenges, and successes to stakeholders, building trust and alignment across all levels.
**What We’re Looking For**:
A person with ‘Team First’ mindset who is passionate about agile values and practices and is dedicated to fostering high-performing teams.
Strong understanding of agile frameworks such as Scrum and SAFe with the ability to coach and teach others on agile practices and frameworks.
Proven ability to facilitate collaboration, remove obstacles, and drive continuous improvement.
Servant leader who empowers teams to self-organize, while ensuring alignment with organizational goals and stakeholder priorities.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust and transparency with both the team and stakeholders at all levels to ensure alignment.
Strong facilitation skills, with the ability to guide teams through agile events, foster collaboration, and ensure productive discussions that drive progress and alignment.
Ability to work in a global, fast-paced environment with multiple product portfolios.
High emotional intelligence with the ability to build strong relationships, empathize with team members, and foster a supportive and inclusive team environment.
Ability to navigate and mediate disagreements effectively, ensuring a constructive and collaborative environment within the team.
**Basic Required Qualifications**:
Experience leading teams as a Scrum Master
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Strong facilitation skills
Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate risks and impediments
Team-first, servant leader mentality
**Additional Preferred Qualifications**:
Certified SAFe Scrum Master
Certified PSM or CSM
About S&P Global Ratings
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.
**S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE**: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.
What’s In It For You?
**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.
Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.
**Our People**:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.
**Our Values**:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
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