Scrum Master

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 10
**Segment**: S&P Global Market Intelligence
**The Role**: Scrum Master
**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 will 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. Individuals will join one or more of the many scrum teams which are mostly domain focused, and they deliver work as per the organization's priority.
**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 Master 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 or teams 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.
Educate Agile teams to maximize efficiencies and performance from agile best practices and values
Coach Agile scrum teams in self-organization and continuous improvement
Guide Agile teams to consistently delivery customer value
Work with stakeholders to understand the business requirements, customer workflow, and to help identify the skills and teams needed to deliver value
Manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies within and across Scrum teams
Guide the team in release planning, defect management, root cause analysis and project timelines
Facilitate Scrum events such as Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Refinement sessions, Sprint 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
**What We’re Looking For**:
Experience leading teams in delivery using Agile practices as a Scrum Master
Experience in business analysis including requirement gathering, defect troubleshooting, release planning and coordination
Excellent English communication and collaboration skills
Knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
Proven ability to identify and mitigate risks proactively
Team-first, empathetic, servant leader with a growth mindset.
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
At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

**Benefits**:
We take care of you, so you