Lead Scrum Master

Ultipro; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Work from home up to 3 days a week

Paid parental leave

Employee discount programs

Time off including paid personal and s

11 paid holidays

Job summary

Alliant Credit Union in the United States seeks an experienced Agile Coach/Scrum Master to partner with leaders and RTEs to drive an enterprise-wide agile mindset and remove impediments. You will mentor scrum masters, promote the Agile Center of Excellence, and elevate maturity across domains.

You will lead ceremonies such as PI Planning, provide metrics and dashboards, and align teams with OKRs while delivering program progress and value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related required.
• 7+ years as Scrum Master, software development or related.
• Certifications such as CSM, A-CSM, CSP-PO, POPM or SAFe RTE preferred.
• Experience with Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, LeSS) and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner to drive enterprise-wide agile mindset.
• Mentor scrum masters and elevate the Agile Center of Excellence.
• Align programs with transformation goals and resolve impediments.
• Lead PI Planning and other agile ceremonies; manage metrics and dashboards.
• Collaborate with product and program management to improve PI readiness.
• Coach teams to maximize ROI and milestone delivery.

Skills

Agile coaching

Mentoring Scrum Masters

Agile Center of Excellence

Agile maturity assessments

PI Planning facilitation

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

OKR alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Advanced Certified-Scrum Master (A-CSM)

SAFe POPM or RTE certification

Tools

Azure DevOps (ADO)

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.

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