Description
Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Scrum Master for its Johnston, RI location.
Duties: Guides and coaches delivery teams to self-organize and achieve objectives. Cultivates an environment of continuous learning, helping teams to inspect and adapt. Provides support to the Product Owner and Development Teams, and leads by example. Proactively identifies and mitigates risks using Agile best practices and project data. Facilitates effective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring that stories are "sprint ready." Collaborates across business lines to drive simple, quick, and agile outcomes that have big impacts. Responds to fast-changing clients' requirements and interprets into business or technical language. Assists with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and information radiation. Arranges daily stand-ups, facilitates story grooming, and coordinates sprint demos, planning and retrospectives. Facilitates discussions, decision-making, and conflict resolution. Works with management to clarify needs and plan delivery of major product changes, future versions and new products.
Requirements: Bachelors degree in engineering, computer science, or related field, followed by four (4) years of progressive experience in the role or in a related position. Full term of experience must include: Leading IT projects using Waterfall and Agile methodologies; Leading Agile, Kanban delivery, and rapid platform development teams on time, on budget, and to specification; Driving Scrum Teams to enact empirical product development, causing change that increases productivity, and ensuring products are delivered to a high standard of quality; Utilizing EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RedShift, and Glue, to deploy code on the AWS platform; Utilizing Jenkins to deploy code in application pipelines on AWSDataDog for system and application monitoring and daily application health checks; Preparing detailed production implementation and deployment plans using Planview, Jira, and MS Project to launch cloud platform projects; Calculating Sprint velocity, Sprint burndown, Sprint burnup, and Release burndown using JIRA Query Language, JIRA metrics and dashboards; Executing all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective; Ensuring Atlassian JIRA technical stories and sub-tasks align with business requirements; and Utilizing project management software, including JIRA, Confluence, and MS Project Planview.
May telecommute from any U.S. location.
Direct applicants only.
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Equal Employment Opportunity
At Citizens we value diversity, equity and inclusion, and treat everyone with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on experience, performance, and ability. Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender individuals who are transitioning, have transitioned, or are perceived to be transitioning to the gender with which they identify), genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague's or a dependent's reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.
Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer
Citizens is a brand name of Citizens Bank, N.A. and each of its respective affiliates.
Background Check
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information.
What We Do
As one of the oldest and largest financial services firms in the United States with a history dating back to 1828, we’re committed to providing solutions and expertise that support our customers, clients, colleagues, and communities in what’s next on their own unique journey.
We invest in the humans who build the logic, ideas, and innovations that bring new technologies to life. Investments in AI, cloud computing, machine learning and automation provide our engineers the tools that enable us to remain competitive and win in today’s environment.
At Citizens, we recognize that the journey to accomplishment is no longer linear and that individuals are made of all they have done and all they are going to do. Whether you’re considering banking with us or looking to work with us, you’ll find a customer-centric culture and a supportive, collaborative workforce at Citizens. You’re made ready and so are we. #MadeReady
Why Work With Us
We empower the colleagues that power our tech. With growth & upskilling opportunities and sought-after benefits, plus a diverse culture of people and perspectives, we help our colleagues achieve career goals. Because innovation can’t happen without the minds and hearts of our people. Technology is constantly evolving, and we believe you can too.
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