Senior Scrum Master

Full Time
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Posted
Job description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

Job Description:

Acts as a leader as part of an Agile team to deliver high value software solutions that contribute to the success of our technology initiatives in an agile environment. Provides overall guidance for team to adhere to Agile principles and practices. Arranges, facilitates and schedules meetings, demos and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative process is in use. This includes sprint team backlog grooming, estimating and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning daily standups, and retrospectives. Works with stakeholders and team members to continuously improve. Drives quicker delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity. Facilitates team transparency by escalating impediments and shares progress by the team to the appropriate channels. Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work. Plans and coordinates testing environment deployments and application / system integration testing. Guides team in self-organization; encourages and motivates team to focus on iteration goals.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • Three or more years of experience in Agile technology delivery
  • Five or more years of experience in Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) teams
  • Three or more years of experience as a Scrum Master
  • Strong knowledge of Agile principles and practices and capacity to understand specific needs or requirements to apply skills/knowledge

- Experience in digital transformation - from project oriented organization to product aligned organization

  • Understanding of basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
  • Experience in business analytics, product management, or product development
  • Experience successfully delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule
  • Demonstrated ability to influence team and key stakeholders
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Ability to work in ambiguity and iterate to a solution – can estimate and solve basic business problems without explicit direction
  • Creative, flexible, and willing to continuously change, evolve, and improve software development processes
  • Demonstrated technical leadership and direction
  • Demonstrated program-level collaboration and system architecture understanding
  • Strong communication, collaboration, leadership, conflict resolution, budgeting and time management skills
  • Experience in banking, open banking, or finance is a plus
  • Experience with design thinking is a plus
  • CSM (Certified Scrum Master) certification a plus

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Learn how the way we work at U.S. Bank drives meaningful relationships with our customers and collaboration across the company.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

  • Basic term and optional term life insurance

  • Short-term and long-term disability

  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave

  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

  • Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

  • Adoption assistance

  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

EEO is the Law

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors. Applicants can learn more about the company’s status as an equal opportunity employer by viewing the federal KNOW YOUR RIGHTS EEO poster.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

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