Scrum Master

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About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

10

Job Title: SCRUM Master

The Role: In this role, you will be working with a team of enthusiastic members supporting our critical technology systems and guiding our business partners & end users with industry best practices, solution design, and creating long term value to our customers.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Act as Servant leader to an Agile team.
2. Educate Agile teams to maximize efficiencies and performance from Scaled Agile practices and values.
3. Coach Agile teams in self-organization and continuous improvement.
4. Guide the Agile teams to consistently deliver customer value.
5. Manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies within and across Agile teams.
6. Facilitate Scrum events including, Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, and Retrospectives.
7. Work with Product Owners to ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by every member of the Agile team.
8. Establish and maintain open and clear lines of team communication to facilitate progress transparency.
9. Work with peer Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and Agile Coaches to increase the effectiveness of Scaled Agile.

What we're looking for:

1. A person with 'Team First' mindset with an ability to build and sustain trust at all levels across the organization.
2. Ability to develop and foster teamwork. Ability to gauge how the team is doing and to drive the necessary actions to improve.
3. Emotional intelligence, level-headed diplomat, skilled listener, and clear communicator, with strong empathy traits, able to remain objective and constructive in all situations.
4. Ability to facilitate constructive debate and resolve disagreements and conflicts constructively.
5. Deliver hands-on training and coaching of defined Agile practices to individual teams and programs.
6. Proven ability to work cross-functionally and cross-regionally across multiple Product portfolios.
7. Understand other engineering processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/Enterprise.

Basic Qualifications:

1. Experience leading teams as a Scrum Master.
2. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
3. Basic knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
4. Proven ability to identify and mitigate risks.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Certified PSM or CSM.

What's In It For You?

Our Purpose:

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead.

Inclusive Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.