Scrum Master

Job title:

Scrum Master

Company

Federal Reserve Bank

Job description

Company Federal Reserve Bank of RichmondWhen you join the Federal Reserve—the nation’s central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with a dynamic and diverse team of mission-driven professionals to strengthen and protect our economy and our communities.Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.About the OpportunityThe Federal Reserve System transitioned human resources, finance and procurement technology systems into one integrated cloud-based platform using the Workday and SAP Ariba product solutions. To support this new platform, operational support capabilities are being reorganized to be singularly focused on one goal – to deliver a world-class platform in support of the Federal Reserve’s mission. As part of this effort, a new ERP Support Office (ESO) has been created to spearhead technical support of the new solution by establishing an agile team that will embrace change, drive innovation, and rapidly respond to the changing needs of stakeholders.The scrum master is a member of a product team who has a primary responsibility to help the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals. The scrum master facilitates the scrum processes, protects the team from interference, and helps remove impediments so that the team can deliver the sprint goal. They foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous process flow, and relentless improvement.What You Will Do:

• Plans, leads, organizes, and motivates two cross functional teams of medium to medium-high complexity and visibility.
• Develops, tracks, and communicates team’s agile adoption and progress metrics, including velocity, burn-down and cycle time.
• Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning and keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution. Creates team working agreements.
• May lead collaboration sessions with internal clients on medium scale projects to formulate creative and practical solutions to application challenges.
• Supports Product Owners in the development of release plans and roadmaps and to maintain the health of the backlog.
• Partners with project and release managers on production deployment activities
• Acts as a change agent, watches for waste and bottlenecks and adapts to maximize productivity of the team.
• Guards the agile team from external requests and disruptions and removes impediments.
• Coaches the agile team on story point estimation and acceptance criteria definition.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Requires 3-5 years of IT work experience in Project Management/Development where at least 2 years have been leading Scrum teams as a scrum master in an IT or software development setting.
• Requires knowledge of multiple agile development methodologies and frameworks.
• Requires understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
• Demonstrated experience in leading teams.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or other Agile certification a plus.
• Knowledge: Advanced knowledge pertaining to concepts and principles in Project/Product Management areas. General knowledge of department/business lines, Reserve Banks, and / or System operations, policies, procedures and technologies.
• Communications: Excellent organizational and communication skills, creativity, attention to detail (compliance), and negotiation skills to interpret results, develop communications and recommend improvements. Able to present information within all settings in a credible, confident and influential manner. Communicates in a concise, direct and purposeful way. Excellent customer service skills and demonstrated ability to interact with anticipated audiences in a courteous, service-oriented manner.
• Risk Management: [The individual] is responsible for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making and contributing to his or her function’s risk management.
• Decision Making: Works independently or under general directions as to scope or objectives. Makes decisions within established or widely accepted standards. Achieves assigned/planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, training, business principles, and practical experience.

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!When you join Federal Reserve’s National IT organization, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

• Great medical benefits
• Pension and 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee resource networks
• Paid volunteer leave
• Flexible work options
• Onsite amenities that make working here fun

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the

to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions. * If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify
. * Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).

• Sponsorship is not available for this role. Selected candidate is subject to special background check procedures.
• The hiring range of the Scrum Master is $117,000 – $146,300 annually.

• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.

Full Time / Part Time Full timeRegular / Temporary RegularJob Exempt (Yes / No) YesJob Category Project Management FamilyWork Shift First (United States of America)The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

Expected salary

$117000 – 146300 per year

Location

Richmond, VA

Job date

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:43:14 GMT

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