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. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. 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 teams 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

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years of applicable experience
• Highly motivated and experienced Project Manager / Scrum Master responsible for helping organize, lead and deliver on highly visible projects focused on delivering next generation event processing, alerting and analytics and regulatory reporting.
• The candidate would be hands on working within Bank of America Global Markets Data and Architecture (DNA ARC) group, building systems that service users including front office execution services consultants, sales traders, data scientists and compliance.
• The role involves working with a variety of stakeholders, up and down stream applications, along with the internal development team to deliver on several projects across the initiative portfolio.
• Candidates must have a passion for working in fast paced development focused environments and working in a collaborative environment with multiple stake holders.
• Strong understanding of Equities trading
• Working knowledge of NFRR regulatory landscape is a plus
• Experience in writing functional and non-functional requirements
• Ability to write database queries (SQL) and facilitate analysis

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

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent work experience.

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