Seeking a Scrum Master with Financial Services experience for a position in NYC.

• 7-8 yrs of experience with at least 14 years of experience in IT.
• Financial services experience is nice to have.
• Ensuring that the Scrum Team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and rules
• Leading and coaching the team/organization in its Scrum adoption
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Scrum practices and values to delight customers
• Guiding the team on how to get the most of our self-organization
• Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Works with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Engaging with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example

Key Skills

• Experience playing the Scrum Master role (for more than 2 engagements is desired) for at least 5 years for a development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burn-down techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs)
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques, tools & approaches: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, Jira, Burn-down techniques.The Skills that are

Nice to have

• Strong time management and planning skills required.
• Possess excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Scrum Master certification