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Our Consumer & Community Banking Group depends on innovators like you to serve nearly 66 million consumers and over 4 million small businesses, municipalities and non-profits. You ll support the delivery of award winning tools and services that cover everything from personal and small business banking as well as lending, mortgages, credit cards, payments, auto finance and investment advice. This group is also focused on developing and delivering cutting edged mobile applications, digital experiences and next generation banking technology solutions to better serve our clients and customers.As a member of our Software Engineering Group you will dive head-first into creating innovative solutions that advance businesses and careers. You ll join an inspiring and curious team of technologists dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. You ll be tasked with keeping the team and other key stakeholders up to speed on the progress of what s being developed. Coming in with an understanding of the importance of end-to-end software development-such as Agile frameworks-is key. And best of all, you ll be working with and sharing ideas, information and innovation with our global team of technologists from all over the world.Description / Primary Responsibilities:Facilitates scrum events including but not limited to; daily scrum, refinement, planning, review, and retrospective. Assists teams in resolving impediments regardless of where they are in the organization Builds productive relationships amongst the team and follows through on commitments to gain trust and respect Leads and coaches the benefits of working in an agile manner, including agile practices, events and techniques to all employees within span of influence Coaches the Product owner to ensure the team is aligned with the Product vision, Product Backlog, Sprint goals, and other necessary information to produce the desired outcomes Coach Product Owner to use the right processes to create a successful product by: Defining product scope, guiding principles and roadmap Understanding the customer, getting feedback to drive product development Building and maintaining a healthy backlog Organizing interactions with stakeholders Embraces the concept of continuous learning in own journey and drives in the team by: Protecting the team from churn Driving velocity improvements Lowering defect density Promoting more frequent deployments Assumes ownership role in the team and has shared accountability with the team on delivery and continuous improvements Enables and ensures clear communication to help the Development team to meet its goal Helps team to celebrate smart failure and learn new ways to improve Applies self-organization skills to facilitate cross-functional collaboration, effective communication, decision making, and conflict resolution Works with other Scrum Masters (via. Community of Practices) to increase the effectiveness of agile ways of working in the organization Demonstrated ability to acts as Agility Lead and influence policy for at least 1 team in an established mature environment with limited complexity and ambiguitySkills: Knowledge of Scrum/Agile principles and application of it at scale Ability to flex approach based on the needs of the team/organization Uses empathy; understand team dynamics and organizational boundaries / constraints Ability to use and analyze data/organizational metrics to identify trends, demonstrate progress and identify opportunities for the team Ability to use facilitation skills to help unlock self-organization, autonomy and creativity in the team Basic understanding of Design Thinking / Customer Journey mapping exercise Solid and proven understanding of various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban & XP Working knowledge of collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Share Point Estimation and Planning skills to ensure the team has a healthy backlog Possess the business acumen required to ensure that goals, scope, and product domain knowledge is shared and understood by everyone on the team as well as possible Familiar with preferred programming practices (CI/CD, ATDD, Continuous Testing, etc.) in order to facilitate the team towards the right solutions and improvements. Familiar with common development design patterns or technologies such as Service oriented environments, Microservices, APIs, etc.Business Knowledge: Knowledge of transformation strategic direction Familiarity with customer-centered techniques including user research, UX and UI trends, design thinking, lean startup, customer journey and user story mapping. Familiarity with end to end product concepts including brand management, marketing, prospecting, account opening, enrollment, fulfillment, and servicing. Familiarity with end to end product development concepts including risk, audit, controls, and legal and compliance.Experience: 4+ years of experience as Agility Lead in an Agile development desired,

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auto financelean startupuser researchbusiness bankingagile developmentcommunity bankingdevelopment designsoftware engineeringtechnology solutions