[Remote] Scrum Master III - REMOTE
Note The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Primax, a Velera Company, is looking for a Scrum Master III to lead Agile teams and drive continuous improvement. The role involves coaching teams on Agile practices, facilitating events, and ensuring effective team dynamics and maturity.
Responsibilities
- Act as a true leader and facilitator of Agile events, program events, team dynamics and team maturity.
- Drive continuous improvement within the team(s) with a focus on agile principles.
- Protect the team from interruptions and manage internal escalations as needed.
- Coach the team to consistently align with program standards.
- Elicit feedback from the team to identify and resolve impediments, monitor progress and performance, and to always keep a pulse on where the team is at in regard to their Team Working Agreement Team Rules, Definition of Ready (DoR), and Definition of Done. (DoD).
- In partnership with the Product Owner and Business System Analyst, develop a clear and concise product backlog items and consistently review.
- Collaborates with the Product Owner and Agile team to understand, identify, and document business value through clear, testable stories.
- Maintains an awareness of relationships, dependencies, risks, and impacts across products and platforms.
- Takes ownership and accountability for the effectiveness of the Agile team and champions change when the team may need to pivot or re-prioritize.
- Mentor less tenured Scrum Masters in the areas of Scrum, Kanban, Agile, refinement, story splitting, relative sizing, velocity, retrospection, conflict resolution, and other techniques.
- Perform other duties as assigned. Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Management, or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
- 7-9 years of hands-on experience on an agile team, preferably in the Scrum Master role required.
- Considerable knowledge with Agile tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO), or similar applications, around epics, features, user stories and tasking and guiding others on those tools and best practices.
- Experience with managing large scale technology projects (software/hardware).
- Utilizes understanding of Agile practices, patterns and techniques to formulate self-organizing and highly collaborative teams.
- Experienced in the facilitation of positive and productive Agile events/ceremonies within a timebox for one or more Agile team Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum/Stand-Up, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and assists in Refinement activities.
- Agile Certification preferred (work experience is considered).
- Experience in systems or financial services environment, card payments, banking, contact center, new product development, information technology or process re-engineering preferred.
- Technically savvy on software development terminology like API’s is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive wages
- Medical with telemedicine
- Dental and Vision
- Basic and Optional Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Maternity, Parental, Family Care
- Community Volunteer Time Off
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Company Paid Disability Insurance
- 401k (with employer match)
- Health Savings Accounts (HSA) with company provided contributions
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Supplemental Insurance
- Mental Health and Well-being Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Wellness program
- Benefits are subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions Company Overview
- Primax is a financial services company offering credit card and private label card services. It was founded in 1981, and is headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http//primax.us. Apply To this Job