IT Project Scrum Master

**Responsibilities**:
Own, advocate, and coach Agile (scrum) processes, ensuring that the team is always following the framework and looking for opportunities to continuously improve. Serve as Scrum Master for up to two Agile teams. Uphold Agile values and principles; facilitate Agile ceremonies. Focus teams to deliver value quickly. Foster a motivating culture of openness, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Coordinate across other Agile teams for complex projects.

Take action based on retrospectives and sprint team metrics to improve sprint team execution approaches and team velocity

Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, Sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning and other Scrum-related meetings. Track and communicate sprint/release progress via information radiators. Ensure all information radiators are current and broadly available

Play a key leadership role in the delivery of complex technology and business solutions. Champion and embody the Scrum way-of-life across the development teams. Encourage and support iterative and collaborative development - favoring people over process. Own, advocate, and teach Agile (scrum) processes, ensuring that the team is always following the framework and looking for opportunities to continuously improve

Escalate and/or resolve impediments to help your team ship code. Leverage data to measuring & monitoring progress against commitments. Coach teams on the basics of Scrum or Kanban (as needed) in simple term

Adoption of standard practices for Scrum Management and Sprint planning, program management, Metrics management and reporting. Guiding and coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to meet program objectives.

Cultivate and foster an environment of trust, good faith, team growth, creativity and empower the team to self-organize. Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.

Take ownership and work with the Product Owner to maximize efficiency and effectiveness and attainment of project objectives.

Protect the team from outside interference, removing impediments, and ensure that the work is delivered as a team.

Ensure the scrum team is adhering to the core agile principles of collaboration, task prioritization, team accountability and visibility

Ensure adherence to the Citi Agile SDLC processes and procedures

Act as advisor or ad-hoc coach to those new to Agile methodology and guide them in the adoption of Agile software development practices (writing user stories, release schedules and integration planning, scrum meetings, velocity and capacity planning).

Act as Scrum master for scrum team(s) with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work. Guide scrum team(s) on how to manage dependencies between teams and third parties when making Sprint commitments.

Facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning and development of long-term roadmaps

**Qualifications**:
**Should have total 4-6 Years of experience and 1-2 years of scrum master experience with in-depth knowledge of Scrum and implementation of Agile Methodologies to multiple teams in large-scale enterprise change projects & programs**

**Must to have strong communication skills**

**Handson with Agile / Scrum practices, Confluence, Jira, Collaboration tools, reporting**

**Should be good Kanban, Extreme programming, release planning**

Strong knowledge of Scrum Management, Sprint and Release planning

Experience running Agile at scale as a SAFe RTE or Scrum of Scrum manager

Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc)

**Education**:
Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience**Job Family Group**:
Technology
- **Job Family**:
Technology Project Management
- **Time Type**:
Full time
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