Scrum Master

Summary

Join Navy Federal Credit Union as a Scrum Master and serve as a liaison between the Product Owner and the product team to embrace agile values and drive delivery results. You will monitor progress, eliminate impediments, and seek opportunities for improvement, requiring a strong understanding of agile principles and best practices. Responsibilities include facilitating Scrum ceremonies, leading Program Increment Planning, representing the team in Scrum of Scrums meetings, managing the sprint backlog, and ensuring alignment with roadmap features and PI objectives. You will also maintain dashboards, prepare quarterly metrics for leadership, and work closely with the PO and PPM. A working knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and technical product development activities is essential. This remote position offers the chance to contribute to a large and impactful organization.

Requirements

• Requires a strong understanding of agile principles and best practices
• Must be adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, resource allocation, capacity planning and other Scrum techniques
• Proficient with Agile metrics to help the team set benchmarks, measure against goals, and evaluate performance
• Must be able to provide applicable insights and thoughts to leadership based on ongoing metric results
• Clearly understand what work we're doing today and how that impacts work that is planned on roadmap
• Must be able to identify potential risks and dependencies
• Must have working knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and technical product development activities
• Understanding technical features and user stores is essential to effectively managing sprint delivery
• Strong knowledge of Scrum and Agile methodologies
• Excellent facilitation and conflict resolution skills
• Experience with Scrum tools and techniques
• Experience with budgeting and accounting operations
• Experience in process improvement activities

Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between the Product Owner and the product team to help embrace agile values, apply agile practices and to drive delivery results by monitoring progress, eliminating impediments and seeking opportunities for continued improvements
• Establish baselines and improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity
• Prepare the Quarterly Metrics for Leadership
• Maintain and update the Program and Team Dashboards
• Facilitate Team Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives to maintain focus and productivity
• Ensure all PBI’s, Features, Epics, Themes, Bugs and Risks are in alignment with NFCU’s ADO standardization with clear and concise details
• Lead and contribute to the Program Increment Planning ceremonies
• This will include assistance in creating objectives, ensuring that features are linked, Risks and dependencies are identified, and the Planned Business Value is documented
• Schedule routine meetings to determine state of Objectives and identify and resolve any impediments for the current PI
• Serve as the team’s representative within the ART for the Scrum of Scrums meetings to identify any Roadblocks, Impediments and Key Accomplishments and share relevant information with the team
• Drive to continuously improve communication and collaboration within the product team and with other delivery teams and stakeholders
• Maintain the ADO Data Integrity Dashboard by identifying and rectifying any issues
• Work closely with PO and PPM to manage the sprint backlog and ensure sprint planning aligns with Roadmap features and PI objectives
• Perform other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of cloud-based technology is preferred