Scrum Master - SAFe

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 10

The Team: In this role, you will collaborate with a team of enthusiastic members to support our critical technology systems. You will guide our business partners and end users with industry best practices, solution design, and creating long-term value for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a servant leader to an Agile team.
• Educate Agile teams to maximize efficiencies and performance through Scaled Agile practices and values.
• Coach Agile teams in self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Guide Agile teams to consistently deliver customer value.
• Manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies within and across Agile teams.
• Facilitate Scrum events including Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by all Agile team members.
• Establish and maintain open and clear lines of communication to facilitate progress transparency.
• Work with peer Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and Agile Coaches to enhance the effectiveness of Scaled Agile.

What We’re Looking For:

• A team-first mindset with the ability to build and sustain trust at all levels across the organization.
• Ability to develop and foster teamwork, gauge team performance, and drive necessary actions for improvement.
• Emotional intelligence, level-headed diplomacy, skilled listening, and clear communication, with strong empathy traits, able to remain objective and constructive in all situations.
• Ability to facilitate constructive debate and resolve disagreements and conflicts constructively.
• Deliver hands-on training and coaching of defined Agile practices to individual teams and programs.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and cross-regionally across multiple Product portfolios.
• Understanding of other engineering processes and methodologies, leveraging techniques to provide value to the team/enterprise.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience leading teams as a Scrum Master.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Basic knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Proven ability to identify and mitigate risks.
• Team-first, servant leader mentality.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified SAFe Scrum Master.
• Certified PSM or CSM.

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What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose: Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our People: We\’re more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we\’re able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

Our Values: Integrity, Discovery, Partnership.

Benefits: We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

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Inclusive Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global: At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions.

Equal Opportunity Employer: S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.

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