Scrum Master Lead

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Posted on: 5 Mar 2021

Plano, TX

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Job Description

As a Scrum Master, you'll act as a servant leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication to management and to the team. Our Scrum Masters are open, approachable, collaborative, and enjoy working with passionate people. They're proactive in solving problems to help their team(s) succeed. The Scrum Master drives Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. They embrace agility as a practice. The Scrum Master is responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals and has a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes.

Our culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem solving is essential to our success. We bring people together with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We support teamwork, thinking big, and taking risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on relevant projects, while building an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. We're excited to see what you'll bring to our team.

Responsibilities:

* Work with the Product owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information
* Facilitate groups of 30 or more and coach multiple teams across the product
* Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
* Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvement events
* Communicate organizational impediments to leadership; clear impediments for the team
* Embrace the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instill the same in the team(s) you coach
* Coach product owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empirical planning
* Appreciate the depths of Lean and Agile practices and principles, help teams appreciate them
* Teach systems thinking and servant leadership
* Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

* BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
* Expertise with Agile and Scrum frameworks and their application in Product Development and delivery organization
* Ability to coach and mentor
* Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels
* Sound understanding of Scaling framework such as LeSS and various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban, XP
* Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the team(s)
* Possess an executive presence and ability to coach multiple teams across the product
* Knowledge of industry-wide technology strategies
* Ability to leverage capabilities across the firm to solve local problems

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

New York, New York

JPMorgan Chase & Co. operates as a financial services company worldwide. It operates in four segments: Consumer & Community Banking (CCB), Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB), Commercial Banking (CB), and Asset & Wealth Management (AWM). The CCB segment offers deposit and investment products and services to consumers; lending, deposit, and cash management and payment solutions to small businesses; mortgage origination and servicing activities; residential mortgages and home equity loans; and credit card, payment processing, auto loan, and leasing services.

The CIB segment provides investment banking products and services, including corporate strategy and structure advisory, and equity and debt markets capital-raising services, as well as loan origination and syndication; cash management and liquidity solutions; and cash securities and derivative instruments, risk management solutions, prime brokerage, and research.

This segment also offers securities services, including custody, fund accounting and administration, and securities lending products for asset managers, insurance companies, and public and private investment funds. The CB segment provides financial solutions, including lending, treasury, investment banking, and asset management to corporations, municipalities, financial institutions, and nonprofit entities, as well as financing to real estate investors and owners.

The AWM segment offers investment and wealth management services across equities, fixed income, alternatives, and money market fund asset classes; multi-asset investment management services; retirement products and services; and brokerage and banking services comprising trusts, estates, loans, mortgages, and deposits. The company also provides ATM, digital covering online and mobile, and telephone banking services. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a collaboration agreement with Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. The company was founded in 1799 and is headquartered in New York, New York.