Scrum Master 2 For Microservices at Wells Fargo in Chandler, AZ

Wells Fargo Technology is a team of more than 40,000 information technology and security professionals who help keep Wells Fargo at the forefront of America's diversified financial services companies. Employees execute an engineering-led IT strategy to deliver stable, secure, scalable and innovative services that provide Wells Fargo global customers 'round-the-clock' banking access through in-store, online, ATM, and other channels. Wells Fargo Technology plays a critical role in the company's customer and employee experience, business and risk management transformation, and growth agenda.

The Microservices Enablement Team is seeking qualified Scrum Master candidates who would be responsible for managing scrum teams in an Agile way supporting the Deposits Product Group & Operations areas and Microservices for Hogan Deposit and Customer applications. This role as Scrum Master focuses on building and supporting new solutions.

Responsibilities include:

• Facilitating the scrum process on scrum teams with cross-functional impacts that involve moderately complex project, non-project, or maintenance work.
• Guides the scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
• Uses empirical data to help the team(s) assess their Scrum Maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
• Proactively addresses systemic impediments to team agility and guides the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blockers.
• Coaches scrum team(s) to deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met.
• Partners with discipline managers to convey their concerns to scrum teams about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards.
• Partners with Product Owner(s) to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which may include stories from multiple projects.
• Completion of some work may depend on non-agile work teams.
• Drives Scrum adoption across all levels in the organization.
• Facilitates and is accountable for owning the Scrum Agile ceremonies for the scrum team(s).
• Partners with Product owners, Program or Project Managers to communicate delivery of work product from the scrum team and escalates key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness.
• Identifies skills and competencies of scrum team members and makes adjustments accordingly to promote development and highly effective teams.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of practical Agile experience (e.g. Product Owner, Business Analyst, Developer on a scrum team, Project Manager, or Business System Consultant working directly with scrum teams)
• 1+ year of experience as a practicing Scrum Master

Desired Qualifications

• Ability to negotiate, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships
• Knowledge and understanding of secure SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) methodologies
• Knowledge and understanding of technology software: release management
• Knowledge and understanding of test driven application development
• Experience using the team collaboration software Confluence
• 8+ years business experience in a matrixed management environment (e.g. product development, project management, implementation)
• Agile Scrum (CSM), SAFE certifications or other advanced Agile certifications
• Experience moving teams and organizations from Waterfall to Agile methodologies and Agile Transformations

Other Desired Qualifications

• Understanding of Microservices

Job Expectations

• Ability to work additional hours as needed
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time