Network Automation Scrum Master II

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for facilitating scrum ceremonies, managing dependencies, providing visibility into delivery plans and progress, promoting agile principles and mindset through coaching, and enabling continuous improvement across multiple scrum teams. Key responsibilities include optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered for medium to high complexity projects and programs. Job expectations include ensuring the team resolves impediments quickly, following agreed-to processes, and maintaining a good relationship with the product management team and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitates Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
• Provides visibility into the Agile team’s delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders
• Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements
• Applies metrics to assess team delivery, maturity, and performance and identifies and shares improvement opportunities with the team
• Partners with product stakeholders to ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog
• Provides coaching and mentoring to the team for them to become high performing by collaborating, focusing on continuous improvement including cross-training, and sharing knowledge on scrum practices and Agile principles
• Leads scaled planning for the team including Pre Planning/Preparation and Program Increment Planning Events) and represents the team in Scrum of Scrums/Agile Release Train Syncs
• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements, and participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
• Facilitates Change Management delivery processes

Position Summary

Network Automation Scrum Master II is a position serving as an automation Scrum Master for multiple technology integrations and automation. Candidate is responsible for leading Scrum Ceremonies and producing associated metrics and reports.  Scrum Master II will facilitate interaction with Architecture, Engineering, Software Developers and internal customers of the identified teams to ensure business requirements are met.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master, working on medium to large projects across a corporate enterprise
• Scrum Master certification
• Working knowledge of Network as a Service and Cloud Services Automation
• Practical experience using Jira Project Management Software as well as writing Jira Query for reporting
• Understanding of strategic and emerging Agile, Project Management development trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging project delivery methods

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent certifications and experience in Agile Methodology, Project Management, software development, Information Technology
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments
• Previous Project Management experience and working knowledge of SDLC
• Knowledge of SAFe

Skills:

• Agile Practices
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Collaboration
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering
• Application Development
• Architecture
• Automation
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder Management

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