Scrum Master II

Stellantis Financial Services (SFS) is the new captive finance company for one of the world's leading automakers and a mobility provider with iconic brands including Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall, Free2move and Leasys.

Our exciting growth provides opportunities to advance your career as we successfully lead products and services from a small to midsize company in just a few years. Join our world class team and culture and contribute to our core mission which is enhancing our customer's experience.

Position Summary:

The Scrum Master is responsible for applying Agile with our development teams, and business stakeholders to produce high-quality work.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups
• Aide in removing blockers occurring within the project, that can slow on-time delivery.
• Provide support to teams using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
• Be the point of contact for external communications.
• Responsible for guiding and coaching teams on Agile methodologies and processes, during transition and into maturity
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Facilitate priority calls with Stakeholders, and Product Team
• Work closely with Product and Project Team, for on-time delivery of on-going projects
• Support and educate the Product Owner/Product Manager, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Triage Bug and Enhancement boards, leading discussions with Product Managers, and Development teams on implementations
• Actively participate and plan the release, with product managers and release manager
• Contributes to the development and improvement of Agile Framework processes, policies, tools, and methodology.
• Manages resource capacity, scheduling, and dependencies of Scrum Team
• Drives standardization and proactively recommends improvements.
• Other duties may be assigned, and responsibilities and activities may change

Qualifications and Competencies:

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Extensive project management experience, partnering with senior business leaders to ensure strategic alignment and the successful, on time delivery of a premier customer facing application.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or similar field.
• Scrum Master certification required

Skills required:

• Experience with SAFe
• Strong technical acumen in areas such as SalesForce, Azure cloud, and database
• JIRA, Azure DevOps, Monday.com experience preferred
• Familiarity with software development
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Scrum, XP, Kanban, etc.)
• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
• Problem-soling and conflict-resolution ability
• Outstanding organizational skills

An applicant must be authorized to work in the United States to be eligible for this position. Stellantis Financial Services, Inc. will not sponsor applicants for work visas of any type for this position.

Travel - 10% travel required

Must have reliable transportation and live within a commutable distance to Dallas, TX.

Work Schedule- This position requires the ability to work various shifts to accommodate business needs. Typically, between the hours of 8AM-6PM Monday through Friday and on weekends as needed.

Physical Requirements:

Sitting for long periods of time, standing, walking, close vision for computer work, speaking, hearing, lift and/or move up to 10 lbs. Reasonable accommodation will be reviewed upon request.

Stellantis Financial Services, Inc (SFS) is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing its employees an environment that is free of harassment, discrimination, and intimidation. It is the policy of SFS to comply with all applicable employment laws and regulations and to provide equal opportunity for all qualified persons and to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity or expression, change of sex, and/or transgender status or any protected status. Candidates must possess authorization to work in the United States. This policy applies to recruitment and placement, promotion, training, transfer, retention, rate of pay and all other terms and conditions of employment. Employment and promotion decisions will be based solely on merit, ability, achievement, experience, conduct and other legitimate business reasons.