Scrum Master

Requirements

• Act as a Servant leader to an agile team, educating and coaching agile teams to maximize efficiencies and performance on Agile practices, focusing on delivering customer value and embracing continuous improvement.
• Identify and manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies within and across scrum teams.
• Facilitate Team Events including Daily Stand-ups, Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Be a partner, collaborating with the Product Owner and Technical leads to understand business problem(s), product(s), and ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by every member of the Agile team.
• Establish and maintain open and clear lines of team communication to facilitate transparency.
• Work with peer Scrum Masters, Delivery Managers, and Business Owners to increase the effectiveness of Development teams.
• Proactively identify and implement improvements in your team’s Agile execution
• Guards and shields the team from distractions and interruptions from external interferences
• Work with Globally distributed team
• Enables close cooperation across all roles and functions
• Has strong understanding of the overall software delivery lifecycle and activities
• Promote and participate in the continuous improvement of structure, processes, tooling to enable the teams to deliver more value.
• Excellent understanding of development concepts and SDLC methodologies.
• Identify opportunities for process and tool improvements and drive those from concept to implementation.
• Engineer a world-class platform with an eye towards rapid iteration and creative problem solving.
• Ensure quality and completeness of the product through unit, integration, and regression capabilities.
• Adheres to architecture standards, risk management and security policies.
• Ability to work with little oversight and supervision, while knowing when to escalate transparently
• Excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills required
• Strong administrative and organizational skills required, as is a focused attention to detail
• A proven willingness to learn, a positive service attitude, and an ability to work in a fast-paced, high demand work environment
• 8+ years working in an agile environment as Scrum Master
• CSM Certified
• Excellent understanding of development concepts and SDLC methodologies.
• Strong customer focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to work with little oversight and supervision, while knowing when to escalate transparently
• Experience of testing at the unit, integration and system levels

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.