• Strong SAFe and Scrum knowledge
• Excellent communication skills
• Outstanding ability to problem solve

• Provides servant-leadership and mentorship to one cross-functional agile team through effective application of Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming (XP).
• Strengthens understanding of effective practices, theories and techniques to support continuous improvement.
• Educates and coaches the team to create an environment that fosters self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Visualizes, communicates and radiates team information to keep their work and impediments visible to stakeholders.

• Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, information radiators, etc., to help create high performing teams.
• Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the team, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration and retrospectives.
• Facilitate meetings with the team for idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving and alignment.
• Help the team gain transparency into their workflow through appropriate use of information radiators.
• Address blocking issues that are beyond the teams authority, or require support from other teams, so the team remains focused on achieving their goals.
• Work with other Agile leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization.
• Seek and host a variety of individual learning opportunities such as communities of practice, conferences, meetups, reading and classroom training.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Design, implement, maintain and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY/MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• While not having direct management responsibility, the position manages activities through influence, accountability and ownership, functioning in an agile environment.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelors degree and a minimum of 2 years experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 1 years Scrum Master experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 6 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 2 years experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 1 years Scrum Master experience.

• Prior experience fostering team self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices.
• Experience developing/managing digital capabilities.
• Understanding of Design Thinking principles.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Prior experience leading through influence.