Lead Scrum Master

Alliant Credit Union

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 93,000 - 144,000

Full time

18 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus
Work from home up to 3 days a week
Time off including paid personal and s
11 paid holidays
Education reimbursement

Job summary

Alliant Credit Union seeks a senior agile transformation partner to drive enterprise-wide adoption and coach the Agile Center of Excellence. The role focuses on mentoring scrum masters, aligning business units with transformation goals, and promoting best practices at scale.

Responsibilities include leading PI Planning, tracking metrics, removing impediments, and fostering cross-functional teamwork to achieve OKRs and improve delivery performance.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 7+ years experience as Scrum Master, software development, or related.
  • Experience with Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Kanban frameworks.
  • Leadership or mentorship experience.
  • In lieu of formal education: 10 years in Scrum Master/Agile roles.
  • Certifications preferred: CSM or related; A-CSM; CSP-PO; POPM; RTE.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a strategic partner to drive enterprise-wide agile mindset and implement best practices.
  • Mentor scrum masters and elevate the Agile Center of Excellence; promote standards at scale.
  • Resolve program-level impediments and support delivery performance.
  • Eliminate silos and enable cross-functional teams; align with OKRs.
  • Lead PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, and Scrum of Scrums; maintain dashboards.
  • Improve PI readiness and agile maturity indicators.
  • Coach teams to maximize ROI and milestone delivery.
  • Promote Agile adoption with ceremonies and data-driven improvements.
  • Maintain backlog visibility and transparency in Azure DevOps.

Skills

Agile leadership
Mentoring
Cross-functional
OKRs
PI Planning
Metrics reporting
DevOps
Coaching
Data-driven

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Related
7+ Years Scrum Master / Software Development
3 Years Scrum Master / SAFe / LeSS / Kanban
10 Years Scrum Master / Agile practices

Tools

Azure DevOps (ADO)
Program Board
Agile dashboards
Kanban boards

Job description


  • Act as a strategic partner to drive enterprise-wide agile mindset by partnering with leaders, Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Agile coach and stakeholders. Continue improvement and drive agile best practices, identify inefficiencies, lead and implement solutions.

  • Partner with leaders to mentor scrum masters, elevate the Agile Center of Excellence, promote across domains. Conduct agile maturity assessments, lead improvements, identify inefficiencies, lead solutions, develop agile standards and drive adoption of best practices at scale.

  • Align business units with enterprise transformation goals by escalating and resolving program-level impediments, risks, and blockers to support delivery performance sustainably.

  • Partner with stakeholders to eliminate silos and enable cross-functional teamwork, Objective and Key Results (OKRs) and resolve cross-team dependencies.

  • Lead agile ceremonies, such as PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, Scrum of Scrums. Provide statistics, identify project dependencies, team capacity, velocity forecasts, burndowns and burn-ups, dashboards, and program board updates.

  • Partner with product and program management to drive decisions based on team capacity, delivery progress, and backlog health. Improve PI readiness and implement agile maturity indicators.

  • Coach and collaborate with teams to maximize ROI and achieve PI objectives and support planning to ensure alignment and milestone delivery.

  • Partner with technology and business leaders to identify process gaps, optimize outputs to drive data decisions. Promote Agile adoption through coaching, key ceremonies, and metric-based process improvements.

  • Manage and optimize the flow of value through the agile teams using various tools, such as Kanban, ADO, the Program Board, team Measure & Grow metrics and other information radiators.

  • Assess and enhance value stream flow to improve agile practices related to DevOps and Release on Demand within the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.

  • Partner with systems teams to maintain Agile tools and ensure business units support transparency, flow and deliver to business OKRs/priorities.

  • Maintain alignment, tagging, completion, reporting and oversight of backlog items (stories/features) in Azure DevOps (ADO) to maximize project and program transparency and ensure timely program adjustments.


Education &Years of Experience


  • Minimum- 4 Year Bachelors Degree inComputer Science or Related

  • Minimum - 7 YearsScrum Master, Software Development or Related

  • Preferred- 3 YearsScrum Master, Agile frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Kanban or Related

  • Preferred - 1 YearLeadership/Mentorship Role


In Lieu of Education


  • 10 YearsScrum Master, Agile practices, Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Kanban, Software development, or Related


License/Certifications/Training


  • Preferred: Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or related

  • Preferred: Advanced Certified-Scrum Master (A-CSM)

  • Preferred: Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO) or related

  • Preferred: SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) or related

  • Preferred: SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or related


Typical hiring range: $92,600.00 to $144,100.00 Annually. Actual compensation will be determined using factors such as experience, skills & knowledge.


Benefits: Alliant provides a benefits package including health care, vision, dental, and 401k with employer match including:



  • Annual performance bonus

  • Work from home up to 3 days a week

  • Paid parental leave

  • Employee discount programs

  • Time off including paid personal and sick days

  • 11 paid holidays


*Note that eligibility and cost of benefits can vary depending on the number of regularly scheduled hours, and job status such as regular full-time, regular part-time, or temporary employment.


Adhere to and ensure compliance of all business transactions with policy and process of the Bank Secrecy Act. Ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal laws, company procedures and policies. Maintains integrity and ethics in all actions and conversations with or regarding credit union members and their accounts; complies with Privacy Act directives.


The responsibilities listed do not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.


Equal Opportunity Employer

Essential Responsibilities


  • Act as a strategic partner to drive enterprise-wide agile mindset by partnering with leaders, Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Agile coach and stakeholders. Continue improvement and drive agile best practices, identify inefficiencies, lead and implement solutions.

  • Partner with leaders to mentor scrum masters, elevate the Agile Center of Excellence, promote across domains. Conduct agile maturity assessments, lead improvements, identify inefficiencies, lead solutions, develop agile standards and drive adoption of best practices at scale.

  • Align business units with enterprise transformation goals by escalating and resolving program-level impediments, risks, and blockers to support delivery performance sustainably.

  • Partner with stakeholders to eliminate silos and enable cross-functional teamwork, Objective and Key Results (OKRs) and resolve cross-team dependencies.

  • Lead agile ceremonies, such as PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, Scrum of Scrums. Provide statistics, identify project dependencies, team capacity, velocity forecasts, burndowns and burn-ups, dashboards, and program board updates.

  • Partner with product and program management to drive decisions based on team capacity, delivery progress, and backlog health. Improve PI readiness and implement agile maturity indicators.

  • Coach and collaborate with teams to maximize ROI and achieve PI objectives and support planning to ensure alignment and milestone delivery.

  • Partner with technology and business leaders to identify process gaps, optimize outputs to drive data decisions. Promote Agile adoption through coaching, key ceremonies, and metric-based process improvements.

  • Manage and optimize the flow of value through the agile teams using various tools, such as Kanban, ADO, the Program Board, team Measure & Grow metrics and other information radiators.

  • Assess and enhance value stream flow to improve agile practices related to DevOps and Release on Demand within the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.

  • Partner with systems teams to maintain Agile tools and ensure business units support transparency, flow and deliver to business OKRs/priorities.

  • Maintain alignment, tagging, completion, reporting and oversight of backlog items (stories/features) in Azure DevOps (ADO) to maximize project and program transparency and ensure timely program adjustments.


Education &Years of Experience


  • Minimum- 4 Year Bachelors Degree inComputer Science or Related

  • Minimum - 7 YearsScrum Master, Software Development or Related

  • Preferred- 3 YearsScrum Master, Agile frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Kanban or Related

  • Preferred - 1 YearLeadership/Mentorship Role


In Lieu of Education


  • 10 YearsScrum Master, Agile practices, Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Kanban, Software development, or Related


License/Certifications/Training


  • Preferred: Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or related

  • Preferred: Advanced Certified-Scrum Master (A-CSM)

  • Preferred: Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO) or related

  • Preferred: SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) or related

  • Preferred: SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or related


Compensation & Benefits:

Typical hiring range: $92,600.00 to $144,100.00 Annually. Actual compensation will be determined using factors such as experience, skills & knowledge.


Benefits: Alliant provides a benefits package including health care, vision, dental, and 401k with employer match including:



  • Annual performance bonus

  • Work from home up to 3 days a week

  • Paid parental leave

  • Employee discount programs

  • Time off including paid personal and sick days

  • 11 paid holidays

  • Education reimbursement


*Note that eligibility and cost of benefits can vary depending on the number of regularly scheduled hours, and job status such as regular full-time, regular part-time, or temporary employment.


Adhere to and ensure compliance of all business transactions with policy and process of the Bank Secrecy Act. Ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal laws, company procedures and policies. Maintains integrity and ethics in all actions and conversations with or regarding credit union members and their accounts; complies with Privacy Act directives.


The responsibilities listed do not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.


Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

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