Scrum Master

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$66,640.00/yr - $83,300.00/yr

At Municipal Credit Union, we believe that an incredible culture helps create a happy and motivated team that works hard to achieve the best results for themselves and their members. For more than 100 years, MCU has provided affordable financial products and convenient services to a membership base that is now comprised of over 600,000 individuals. With each new generation we have the pleasure of interacting with, we maintain the credit union promise of people helping people.

To help hard‑working New Yorkers build better tomorrows

Be New York's most loved financial institution by helping our members build their best financial futures

The Scrum Master is responsible for working collaboratively with the Scrum team on projects of varying sizes and complexity. Most projects will follow Agile methodologies, and the Scrum Master may be engaged at all parts of the project process from conception to closure and hand‑off to operations. The Scrum Master needs to create and foster lasting positive vendor and member relationships.

As a Scrum Master, the person will be expected to work with a cross‑functional team consisting of team members from multiple departments. The Scrum Master must keep the team engaged and focused, work with the team to remove blockers, and maintain the project and sprint backlogs with the product owner.

The agile scrum master is responsible for ensuring the team lives with agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices that the team agreed they would use. The Scrum Master is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide. Scrum Masters do this by helping everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values. The Scrum Master is a servant‑leader for the Scrum Team.

The Scrum Master helps those outside the Scrum Team understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which are not. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.

• Drive sprint planning, estimation, retrospective and all agile ceremonies
• Work with Product Owners to refine product backlogs and new requests
• Partner with and coach Product Owner on Agile principals
• Protect the team, resolve conflicts, and filter out all noise and remove obstacles that may occur
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
• Support teams implement changes effectively
• Ensure deliverables are in proper user story format.
• Assist scrum team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand‑up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, demos, and other Scrum‑related meetings
• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
• Guides the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices.
• Assesses the maturity of the team and organization, coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving.
• Facilitates completion of tasks and goals without using coercion, assigning, or dictating task
• Decision‑making flexibility to allow team to pivot faster and perform better
• Embrace change by quick adaptability to a new environment
• Performs at high levels of effectiveness
• Focused on value delivery
• Streamlined efficiency‑minimal process
• Can‑do attitude and eager to tackle any challenge
• Knows how to say “NO” because of the power of prioritization
• Accountable for showing up in excellence every day
• Diversity of thought—being…