Sr. Scrum Master (FTE / Onsite)

Req ID: 385944 

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Sr. Scrum Master (FTE / Onsite) to join our team in Minneapolis, Minnesota (US-MN), United States (US).

Job duties and responsibilities:

• Support Agile delivery provides business value and delivers quality results ensuring alignment and adherence to Wells Fargo Agile practices, managing capacity and mitigating risk.
• Facilitate Scrum Agile ceremonies for the teams.
• Ensure the flow of work is systemically managed to effectively and efficiently deliver value, including partnering with Product Owner to ensure a healthy backlog.
• Perform and share regular Agile team health checks and enable the team to incorporate targets into continuous improvement goals.
• Protect the team from distractions and support the resolution of their impediments so they can focus on their commitments and maximize the benefit of the team's performance potential.
• Works with Product Owner to communicate delivery of work product from the delivery team and escalates key risks and issues impeding delivery team effectiveness.
• Establishing, communicating, and monitoring pr​oduct-area goals and performance indicators.
• Facilitating frequent collaboration between stakeholders.
• Actively owning the prioritization of a clearly understood product area backlog aligned to product area vision and goals.
• Coordinating with other product owners in service of the customer experience.
• Defining and refining user stories, including business readiness stories, ensuring acceptance criteria is clearly understood by the team.
• Responsible for ensuring that all known work is added to the backlog and made transparent.​
• Maintain a healthy backlog of items that are linked appropriately (Story → Feature → Epic).
• Accepting user stories after they have met the acceptance criteria and the definition of done.
• Actively participating in all product area events.
• Identifying and resolving sequencing and prioritization conflicts across products and product areas.
• Inspiring and leading high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• Being available to the team to answer questions and address escalated impediments.
• Maintaining continuous and cadenced communication with the product manager and delivery teams
• Coordinating with business analysts, delivery coordinators, POs, and supporting roles that are shared across delivery teams.

Recommended skills

• 5+ years’ experience with Agile practices, and frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, etc.) and workflow, and collaboration tools, such as Confluence, and Jira 
• Experience with human centered design principles
• Strong risk management leadership skills
• Strong dependency management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively, in both written and verbal formats, at all levels of the organization, including senior executive-level leadership
• Ability to influence and lead organizational changes in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work and influence successfully within a matrix environment and build effective business partnerships with all levels of team members
• Experience working with and leading delivery teams
• Comfortable with ambiguity and facilitating discussion to explore the best possible solutions and possess the ability to lead

NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this role is $83,520.00 to $125,280.00. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance. 

This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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