Company Description
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Company Name: FIS Global
Job Description
Position Type :
Full time
Type Of Hire :
Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)
Education Desired :
Bachelor of Engineering
Travel Percentage :
0%
Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.
About the team
In today’s highly competitive retirement market, firms must not only deliver superior customer value, but cater to challenging customer requirements and solve complex problems efficiently. Throughout the industry there is mounting pressure on organizations to do more, requiring a clear technology strategy that not only addresses the demands of today, but also enables the growth and performance of tomorrow. Sounds Interesting?What you will be doing ?
Entry level professional individual contributor role. Generally, performs tasks with multiple Scrum teams. Consults with senior peers on non-complex teams to learn through experience. Mentors/coaches the team they are on.
What you bring ?
- Total 7-10 years of experience, 5+ years of relevant experience in Scrum Master Role
- Serve as the Project Scrum team facilitator. Leverages Agile principles to ensure adherence to the theory, practices, and rules of Scrum.
- Supports Product Owners in structuring and organizing backlog by utilizing collaborative techniques and communication strategies for efficient backlog management.
- Promotes self-organizing, cross-functional techniques to build high performing teams; that delivery high-quality products.
- Supports Scrum teams by removing impediments to protect sprint goals.
- Facilitates Scrum ceremonies as requested or needed, maintains time-box ceremonies.
- Practices the core agile principles in collaboration, prioritization, accountability.
- Promotes continuous improvement throughout the product cycle.
- Facilitates sprint demos, planning and retrospectives.
- Provides status reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs), schedules, resources and milestone delivery.
- Other related duties assigned as needed
Skills
- Experience in a scrum master role
- Familiarity with software development and SDLC cycle, Knowledge of mainframe development is a plus
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks like Kanban, XP, and scaling agile frameworks like SAFe, Spotify, etc.
- Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business or similar field
- Scrum master certification is a plus
- Helping software development teams apply the Scrum framework
- Planning deliverables and helping teams monitor performance
- Resolving issues that hinder the teams’ work
What you will do :
- Manage each project’s scope and timeline
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
- Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
- Help teams implement changes effectively
- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
- Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
- Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it
Competencies
- Excellent communicator – ability to discuss technical and commercial solutions to internal and external parties and adapt depending on the technical or business focus of the discussion
- Attention to detail – track record of authoring high quality documentation
- Organized approach – manage and adapt priorities according to client and internal requirements
- Self-starter but team mindset - work autonomously and as part of a global team
What we offer you
- A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
- A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities – FIS is your final career step!
- A competitive salary and benefits
- A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities
With a 50-year history rooted in the financial services industry, FIS™ is the world's largest global provider dedicated to financial technology solutions. We champion clients from banking to capital markets, retail to corporate and everything touched by financial services. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, our 53,000 worldwide employees help serve more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries. Our technology powers billions of transactions annually that move over $9 trillion around the globe. FIS is a Fortune 500 company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index
Privacy Statement
FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.
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