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Charles Schwab Scrum Master in Lone Tree, Colorado
Your Opportunity
The Wealth Management Technologies organization manages a suite of Schwab Wealth Investment Advisory products, including Schwab Intelligent Portfolios and Schwab Intelligent Advisory. We deliver great platforms through teamwork, innovation and attention to quality in order bring wealth management solutions to more customers.
What you are good at
The Scrum Master provides effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership and coaching skills supporting the agile development process and delivery of our applications. As an agile expert, the Scrum Master will be responsible for enforcing the agile tenants as interpreted by our team, removing impediments and promoting empowerment. The Scrum Master position is highly responsible and accountable and will challenge the teams and strive for improving agile best practices. This position requires basic understanding of software development and technology.
Support agile based SDLC for software development creating necessary standards, tools and best practices
Participate and support development and software delivery
Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting
Maintain process and metrics documentation
Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency using Jira.
Support the development managers and project leads as necessary
Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and predictability
Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition and capacity management
Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
Facilitate discussion, meetings and conflict resolution
Empower the teams to self-organize
Improve the productivity of the sprint teams through use of metrics and retrospectives.
Ensure the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable
Participate in the organization and planning of the development schedule based on methodology that has been developed to create a cohesive plan with identifiable platform dependencies, and major milestones, and manages the agreed project user stories and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters
What you have
Must be a Certified Scrum Master
1-3 years as a Scrum Master
1-3 years of technology experience
Experience with Scrum methodologies
Experience in leading teams new to Agile
Must be an excellent team leader with the ability to influence and negotiate
Experience using Work Tracking Tools, i.e. Jira, Rally, TFS
Experience with negotiating prioritization between Product Owners and Technical leadership
Highly adaptable to a constantly changing environment
Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse and a geographically dispersed team
Must be self-motivated, as well as, creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
Must be collaborative in driving decisions and able to deal with all levels of management and stakeholders
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Job Locations US-CO-Lone Tree
Requisition ID 2021-67194
Posted Date 1 month ago (1/20/2021 10:16 AM)
Category Product & Project Management
CO Salary Range 92,000.000-135,000.00
Position Type Full time
