Scrum Master

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S&P accelerate progress by delivering data, technology, and expertise that power the markets of the future. Their six operating divisions across financial information and services, ratings, indices, commodities and energy, transportation, and engineering help their customers make decisions with conviction.

The Team: With over 35,000 employees working across 95 offices around the world, the diverse and vibrant community at S&P Global is unlike one you'll find anywhere else. This is an opportunity to join their highly impactful Delivery Management team as a Scrum Master and work closely with business and technology teams to define and deliver solutions in a highly collaborative, agile environment, specifically in their Data Distribution product line. Data Delivery team supplies services to ease distribution of structured and unstructured data from producers to consumers.

The Impact: As an initiative-taking individual, ready to take your career to new heights by joining the market leader, you will be working with technology and business stakeholders to create an agile mindset and enable their agile development teams to successfully build, deliver and support solutions to complex business problems.

What's in it for you:

• An opportunity to work with global agile development teams to deliver innovative solutions to complex business needs
• An opportunity to use and further develop your Scrum Master and project delivery skills in a dynamic and agile global organization.
• An opportunity to build relationships and engage with colleagues and stakeholders across the organization, in a global, people focused, flexible working environment.

Responsibilities:

• Be a servant leader to agile teams, creating agile mindsets and coaching the development teams to maximize their performance to deliver customer value and embrace continuous improvement.
• Work closely with product owners, technical leads, and dev teams to refine and create a shared understanding of business needs and expectations, create work items that are concise, clear and well defined that are prioritized for planning and execution.
• Enable teams to understand business needs, plan and build solutions, track progress, find and manage risks, remove impediments, and resolve dependencies within and across teams.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies and practices including feature refinement, sprint backlog refinements, daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective.
• Establish and keep open and clear lines of communication to ease transparency and collaboration. Work with peer scrum masters, delivery managers and agile coaches to maximize the performance of teams and improve the effectiveness of agile practices.

What They're Looking For:

• Engineering or equivalent graduation degree
• Good understanding of agile software development
• Five or more years of experience in the role of scrum master
• General conceptual understanding of financial domain
• Excellent communication skills and people motivation skills
• Good at project and delivery management