Northern Trust is looking for a Scrum Master to help create empowered, self-organizing, high-performing teams by serving as the team's servant leader, mentoring them on Agile best practices, and continuously improving team productivity and delivery.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge and experience with Agile techniques such as Continuous Integration, automated testing, test-first approaches such as TDD, ATDD, etc., pairing, Agile games, etc.
- Able to organize, moderate and demonstrate Agile industry best practices.
- Experience with developing and executing plans, meeting deadlines, coordinating timelines and efforts and applying advanced principles, theories and experiences.
- Experience with Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools (JIRA, Rally/CA Agile Central, VersionOne, etc.) preferred.
- Certified Scrum Professional and/or certified Scrum Master preferred.
Responsibilities
- Mentor the team and the Product Owner on Scrum and Agile best practices
- Continuously improve team productivity and facilitate completion of work
- Educate the team, Product Owner and stakeholders on the business value of engineering practices, and promote the use of engineering practices to provide faster delivery, better quality, and fewer defects
- In collaboration with the team and Product Owner, regularly assess the Agile maturity of the team, identify improvement opportunities, and implement the improvements at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and the organization
- Coach the team on the value and methods of developing cross-functional skills
- In collaboration with the team, identify and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies internal and external to the team
- Remove impediments that prevent the team from delivering work and continuously improving
Other
- Create empowered, self-organizing, high-performing teams by serving as the team’s servant leader
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, time management and individual and team building skills.
- Advanced interpersonal skills, able to establish strong working relationships and promote bi-directional communication within and across teams and programs.
- Strong leadership and organizational skills, skilled in facilitation, continuous improvement, empowerment, transparency, building trust and servant leadership.
- Able to effectively manage challenging situations through negotiation and conflict resolution.
