Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Ensures successful completion of assigned projects and programs through effective facilitation and leadership.
• Facilitates the removal of team level impediments and raises non-team level blockers to conclusion.
• Manages release plans, iteration plans, forecasting and status reporting for the designated projects.
• Ensures user stories, acceptance criteria, assumptions, and all related documentation are timely and complete, supporting development, testing, and user acceptance activities.
• Support risk and issue identification, and mitigation activities with the agile team including raising those in a proactive and professional fashion, when appropriate.
• Encourages collaboration and proactively seeks opportunities to improve collaboration between distributed teams and other support teams.
• Facilitates periodic Reviews and Retrospectives by tracking report status through consistent, standardized dashboards and metric reporting.
• Improve transparency and visibility across the Broadridge organization within and outside of the team.
• Build a safe and trusting environment where conflicts can be managed effectively and professionally.
• Shields the team from external interruptions that can derail the team’s progress.

Key Skills:

• Coaching.
• Conflict resolution.
• Scrum knowledge.
• Leadership.
• Project management.
• Adaptability.
• Empathy.
• Facilitation.
• Continuous improvement.