Senior Scrum Master

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Scrum Master in Technology as part of Wealth Investment Management Technology's (WIMT) engineering and transformation office. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com.

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to lead Technology Agile teams within Wealth and Investment Management Technology. In this role, you will be supporting our innovative agile environment and leading end-to-end product execution of enhanced customer experience. As a Senior Scrum Master, you will enable and accelerate quality outcomes by assertively and proactively raising issues to influence change. Additionally, you will provide reporting on agile metrics for the product to senior leadership, raising risks and concerns in delivery across the product suite.  Your contributions in this role will be an important element of our agile practice, helping realize our vision to enable and continuously improve our Scrum Master and Kanban Lead community.  You are responsible to facilitate the delivery process with cross functional impact that involves keeping track of dependencies and aligning them with scrum team development schedule. Effective communication with stakeholders and leaders to escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum teams’ effectiveness is paramount for the success of this role.

In this role, you will:

• Facilitate the scrum process with cross functional impact that involve moderately complex projects, non-projects, or maintenance work
• Guide the scrum teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint
• Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance
• Deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met
• Partner with discipline managers about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards
• Facilitate the Scrum Agile ceremonies for the teams
• Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from the team and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Interact with internal customers
• Receive direction from leaders and exercise independent judgment while developing the knowledge to understand function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 4 years of Agile Scrum Master experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Agile tools (Jira, Confluence etc.)
• Experience working in scaled agile environments (e.g., SAFe, LeSS).
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Advanced CSM (A-CSM), or equivalent Agile certification.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile frameworks.
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Background in software engineering or product management.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work on-site at posted location
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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