Scrum Master

Job title:

Scrum Master

Company

Stifel

Job description

Why Stifel:Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole.Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success. What You’ll Be Doing:The Scrum Master supports agile team(s) in delivery of complex solutions that deliver business value. This position will partner with the product owner to support product backlog definition / refinement / prioritization to feed sprints. Proactively eliminate barriers, coach team members on best practices and run scrum ceremonies. What We’re Looking For:

• Teaches, mentors, coaches and facilitates the agile mindset.
• Facilitates and coaches team’s progress toward the goal and commitments through improvement in quality, predictability, flow and velocity.
• Facilitates improvements in practices / processes within teams.
• Facilitates Scrum ceremonies including daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, team demos and retrospectives.
• Focuses on improving team dynamics, performance and management of conflicts all the while exhibiting lean agile and scrum principles in all actions.
• Supports and coaches the Product Owner, preserves collaborative relationships and communicates extensively with the global community, identifies and removes impediments while maintaining a healthy and transparent relationship.
• Facilitates preparation and readiness for Agile Release Train (ART) ceremonies and supports the team and ART estimate, helps coordinate with other teams on the ART

What You’ll Bring:

• Able to clearly communicate in verbal/non-verbal and written forms to articulate themselves. Able to have clear, professional and open dialogue with team members, other departments, partners/vendors, and direct management.
• Demonstrates the aMinimum Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience.
• bility to work together in a collaborative way.
• Demonstrates the ability to build relationships both inside and outside of individual team.
• Able to create plans to ensure work gets completed. Able to organize themselves to ensure that processes are followed and work is completed in a timely manner.

Education & Experience:

• Minimum Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum Required: 4+ years’ of experience on a product development team using agile / scrum.

Licenses & Credentials:

• Minimum Required: None.

Systems & Technology:

• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office Suite.

About Stifel:Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Expected salary

Location

Saint Louis, MO

Job date

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 03:10:14 GMT

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