Job Description
Job Title: Scrum and Delivery Lead
Location: Denver, CO
Direct Hire
Positions: 1
Max Salary: $$91,200 – $153,210
Overview:
Our vision is to make the company the industry-leading provider of platforms and services for companies to build and run financial applications. The innovation & incubation team has finished incubating a product aimed to help merchants reduce e-commerce consumer drop-offs and is looking to hire an all-star team that can scale the business under the innovation organization. Joining this team will put you at the forefront of fintech innovation. You will be able to scale a first in class product leveraging company assets and capabilities and drive significant value back to the business. Most importantly, your work will shape the future financial services landscape. Our team is made up of builders and you should be no exception!
Responsibilities:
- Make sure all squad team members understand the project’s goals and scope
- Guide the venture’s usage of Agile/Scrum
- Continuous collaboration with the Project Manager on the product backlog
- Coordinates and drives the scrum ceremonies: stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retros (and other meetings)
- Coach and mentor autonomous full stack development squads
- Assist in removing blockers to drive progress
- Constant focus on process improvement
- Keep the project stakeholders up to date on squad pod progress
- Demonstrated history leading and implementing overall scrum strategy
- Managing the team of scrum masters through 1:1’s, mentoring, career pathing
- As the teams are built out, assisting in cross team communication and collaboration to keep everyone in the loop
- Release management – this can range a lot as far as duties but keeping tickets up to date in Jira, creation of release plan, any coordination needed for major releases etc.
- Understanding key metrics and analysis to identify areas of improvement for teams – data backed decision making
- Working with the team to break up work into the smallest deliverables
- Assisting the team in identifying dependencies/blockers early on
Qualifications:
- Prior 5+ years of scrum management experience, with at least 2 years of direct report management experience
- Atlassian JIRA ninja – ability to build dashboards and reports that project alignment with KPIs
- An empathetic leader with a passion for operational efficiency
- Prior experience scaling out a development team (1 squad to many squads)
- Ability to drive a meeting – ensuring meeting goals are attained in a timely and efficient manner
- Strong communication skills – mediation and negotiation skills
- Certifications such as Certified Scrum Master or Professional Scrum Master preferred
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