Scrum Master
About This Role
Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it - we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.
Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.
Job Description
As a Scrum Master, you will follow and promote an agile mindset and methodology, and appropriate agile practices within one or more agile teams. You enable the team to work as effectively as possible and resolve obstacles, to be able to meet the needs of their customers. You coach the team to own and continuously improve their process and practices.
Responsibilities
- Acts as a Servant Leader. Be the champion of a Lean and Agile mindset; teach, coach and mentor others in agile and lean practices.
- Motivate and enables one or more agile teams to take accountability in streamlining delivery processes to efficiently manage large and complex products.
- Supports teams to own their events, that these take place and are positive and productive (e.g., Scrum or Kanban events).
- Collaborates with other Agilists and agile practitioners to optimize the flow of work across multiple agile teams to reduce toil, leading to delivery of measurable product value and early and continuous product increments.
- Coaches teams to visualize their metrics; promote reflection on successes, growth areas, and identify opportunities to experiment & improve.
- Is proactive in building community, fostering inter-team collaboration, and the culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement; driving improvements through to fruition with insight gained through the intelligent use of data and metrics.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here's what we need from you:
- Bachelors - Computer Science or Business or related
- Agile Practice or related
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we'd also look for:
- Some experience of agile at scale (e.g. Scrum@Scale, LeSS, Nexus, SAFe) would be beneficial
- CSM or CSP-SM Certification
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.
The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants - with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law) . We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.