Senior Scrum Master: Remote-Eligible, Ed Reimbursement

Alliant Credit Union; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 84,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Remote work up to 3 days a week

Parental leave

Education reimbursement

11 paid holidays

Job summary

Alliant Credit Union is seeking an experienced Agile leader to support and coach Agile teams, remove impediments, and promote best practices for high-performance delivery. You will enable quality delivery, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate across program and portfolio levels to optimize value streams.

The role emphasizes facilitation of PI Planning and Inspect & Adapt, as well as maintaining team backlogs in Azure DevOps, and driving transparency with dashboards and Program Board

Qualifications

• Minimum - 4 Year Bachelors Degree inComputer Science or Related
• Minimum - 5 YearsSoftware development or related
• Minimum - 2 YearsAgile practices such as Scrum or Kanban or related
• In Lieu of Education
• 8 YearsSoftware development, Agile practices such as Scrum or Kanban or related
• License/Certifications/Training: Preferred: Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or related

Responsibilities

• Provide visibility into delivery targets, commitments, progress and relevant team data necessary to provide maximum team transparency
• Partner with and coach other teams to achieve maximum project return on investment and meet PI objectives and milestones. Work with different teams to plan ahead and prioritize work
• Identify upstream/downstream dependencies and support the team in risk management. Identify impediments and appropriately resolve them using a network of peers and formal channels
• Participate in release planning such as PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, Scrum of Scrums. Provide Scrum team statistics, identifying project dependencies, team capacity, velocity forecasts, burndowns/burn-ups, dashboards, and Program Board updates
• Identify and manage cross-team dependencies and report progress and impediments
• Maintain alignment, tagging, completion, reporting and overall oversight of team backlog items (stories/features) in Azure DevOps (ADO) to maximize project/program transparency and ensure timely program adjustments
• Manage and optimize the flow of value through the Agile team(s) using various tools, such as Kanban, ADO, the Program Board, team Measure & Grow metrics and other information radiators
• Partner with systems teams to ensure the Agile team(s) tools are properly supporting the ART and maximizing transparency/flow
• Improve the flow of value through value streams by improving and assessing the Agile team’s practices associated with DevOps and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
• Partner with the Project Management Office (PMO) on program execution and operational excellence
• Drive improvement via workshop facilitation in the Inspect and Adapt ceremony
• Assist the Agile Center of Excellence as a member of the team by contributing to continuous improvement efforts directly or indirectly impacting the Agile teams

Skills

Agile coaching

Facilitation

Risk management

Program coordination

Azure DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Azure DevOps (ADO)

Job description

Alliant Credit Union is seeking an experienced Agile leader to support and coach Agile teams, remove impediments, and promote best practices for high-performance delivery. You will enable quality delivery, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate across program and portfolio levels to optimize value streams.

The role emphasizes facilitation of PI Planning and Inspect & Adapt, as well as maintaining team backlogs in Azure DevOps, and driving transparency with dashboards and Program Board