Scrum Master

• The Lead Scrum Master serves as a senior Agile delivery leader responsible for coordinating and optimizing delivery across multiple Agile teams.
• This role facilitates alignment, transparency, and cross-team collaboration through Scrum of Scrums and scaled Agile practices, while leveraging Azure DevOps to support backlog management, reporting, workflow visibility, and delivery accountability.
• Facilitate Scrum of Scrums ceremonies, PI Planning, cross-team refinement, sprint planning, and release coordination to ensure effective communication, alignment, and execution across multiple Agile teams.
• Identify, track, and help resolve cross-team dependencies, risks, and impediments that may impact delivery.
• Partner with Product Management, Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, and other stakeholders to maintain delivery flow and support program execution.
• Manage and optimize Azure DevOps Boards, backlogs, dashboards, queries, workflows, reporting, and usage standards to promote transparency, traceability, and accountability.
• Publish sprint and program artifacts, including sprint commitment reports, burn-down and burn-up charts, velocity by team, and program increment plans.
• Provide clear, data-driven updates to leadership on progress, risks, delivery health, key metrics, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support scaled Agile practices and Agile best-practice adoption across teams, coaching teams toward stronger maturity and continuous improvement.
• Foster collaboration across engineering, product, architecture, quality assurance, operations, and other cross-functional teams.
• Lead program-level retrospectives, identify process gaps, and drive actionable improvements that improve flow, predictability, transparency, accountability, and continuous learning.

Lead Scrum Master

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Coach Agile teams on Scrum principles, Agile best practices, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to manage and prioritize the product backlog.
• Identify, track, and remove impediments impacting team delivery.
• Monitor sprint progress, team velocity, and delivery metrics.
• Foster collaboration between business stakeholders, development teams, QA, and leadership.
• Support release planning and ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
• Drive Agile maturity and promote a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with banking business teams to deliver Cards and Payments initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise governance and regulatory standards where applicable.

Scrum Master – Banking, Cards/Payments

• Serve as the Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams, ensuring successful sprint execution and delivery.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement sessions.
• Coach and mentor teams on Agile principles, Scrum framework, and best practices to improve team maturity and productivity.
• Identify, manage, and remove impediments to ensure the team can deliver sprint commitments effectively.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, QA Engineers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities and project goals.
• Track sprint progress, team velocity, burndown metrics, and delivery status using Agile reporting tools.
• Promote continuous improvement by facilitating retrospectives and implementing actionable process enhancements.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and support release planning activities.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise Agile standards, governance, and delivery practices.
• Foster a collaborative, transparent, and high-performing Agile team culture.

• Draws on past experience, supports and facilitates a number Scrum Team(s) with varying levels of complexity in various functions by fostering Agile values and practices.
• Ensures team adherence to Agile principles.
• Provides coaching to the team(s), including newly formed teams, on how to execute the Scrum Framework.
• May provide guidance to less experienced Scrum Masters.
• Organizes and facilitates ceremonies, recommends and executes on improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and while mitigating risk.
• Tracks and communicates the overall team progress providing visibility to stakeholders.
• Takes a broader perspective to provide solutions to complex challenges.
• Serves as a filter to remove impediments to progress identified by the team(s).
• Protects the team(s) from outside influences to ensure the team remains focused on Scrum Team priorities.
• Partners with the Product Owner(s) to ensure the backlog items are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team(s).

Senior Scrum Master – Retail Technology

• Lead end-to-end IT project planning and execution, including scope, schedule, budget, risks, and dependencies
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and delivery roadmaps
• Track milestones, manage issues and risks, and escalate as needed
• Coordinate across technology, business, and vendor teams to ensure on-time delivery
• Provide clear, consistent status reporting to stakeholders and leadership
• Ensure compliance with PNC governance, SDLC, and risk management standards
• Serve as Scrum Master for Agile teams, ensuring adherence to Scrum principles and best practices
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Remove impediments and support teams in delivering sprint commitments
• Partner with Product Owners to support backlog readiness and sprint execution
• Promote continuous improvement and Agile maturity across the team

Senior Scrum Master

• Serve as Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams, ensuring effective adoption of Scrum and Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban as appropriate).
• Own team-level delivery governance and predictability, ensuring clear goals, realistic planning, and transparent signals on scope, risks and progress.
• Ensure work is visible, prioritized, and flowing through the system (e.g., backlogs, boards, WIP limits).
• Help teams create realistic sprint goals or flow target and meet commitments sustainably.
• Define and maintain team-level delivery metrics (e.g., throughput, cycle time, defect trends; DORA metrics where appropriate).
• Identify and make visible impediments impacting throughput or quality – both within and outside the team – and drive resolution in partnership with Engineering, Product, TPMs, and Product Operations.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
• Coach teams on Agile principles, self-organization, and continuous improvement.
• Foster a culture of trust, accountability, psychological safety, and constructive challenge.
• Support Product Owners and Product Managers in effective backlog management and value-based slicing of work.
• Use data and experiments to evolve ways of working rather than enforcing process for its own sake.
• Use quantitative and qualitative insights to identify bottlenecks, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate outcome-focused retrospectives and ensure follow-through on improvement actions.
• Provide clear, concise status, risk and dependency signals to stakeholders, framed in terms of business impact.
• Where applicable, create and maintain delivery dashboards and queries in Agile tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps).
• Own cross-team coordination for work involving supported teams, ensuring dependencies, sequencing, and risks are understood and managed collaboratively.
• Partner with Product Operations and TPMs by providing accurate team- and cluster-level plans, capacity, and risk signals.
• Represent team realities in planning and prioritization forums.
• Collaborate with Design, Security, Data, and other functions to improve end-to-end delivery.
• Contribute to the evolution of Agile practices as the organization scales.

• Facilitate and coordinate Agile Scrum processes for our application development team(s)
• Guide and coach the team on Agile Scrum principles and practices
• Ensure the team works collaboratively and efficiently to deliver high-quality solutions
• Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and feedback sessions
• Resolve team impediments both internally and externally
• Track KPIs and help teams deliver high-quality solutions on time
• Ensure the team follows the Scrum framework and adheres to Agile principles
• Champion Agile principles across our IT organization as part of our Agile transformation

• Facilitate Agile Events: Organize and facilitate all agile events ensuring that the events are positive, productive, kept within the timebox and ensure teams follow the agile spirit and practice.
• Coaching and Mentoring: Mentor the team members and explain to them using the agile methods, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Team Development: Help teams identify and remove impediments, promoting self-organization and accountability.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with Product Owners & Managers and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on goals and priorities.
• Metrics and Reporting: Track and report on team performance metrics, using data to drive improvements and inform stakeholders.
• Conflict Resolution: Mediate conflicts within teams and between teams and stakeholders, ensuring a collaborative environment.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks and issues, facilitating discussions to develop mitigation strategies.

Senior Technical Project Manager – Scrum Master

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Review, and Retrospective) and ensure they are time-boxed, effective, and outcome-oriented.
• Own and administer Jira boards (backlog, sprint, and Kanban as needed): workflows, statuses, fields, dashboards, filters, and reporting.
• Partner with Product Owners, engineers, and stakeholders to remove impediments, manage dependencies, and drive execution against sprint goals.
• Provide transparent delivery reporting (burn-down/up, velocity, throughput, cycle time) and maintain clear communication through Jira dashboards and stakeholder updates.
• Ensure team adherence to Agile principles.
• Provides coaching to the Scrum Team(s) on how to execute the Scrum framework.
• Organizes and facilitates ceremonies, identifies improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and quality while mitigating risk.
• Tracks and communicates the overall team progress providing visibility to stakeholders.
• Serves as a filter to remove impediments to progress as identified by the team.
• Protects the team from outside influences to ensure the team remains focused on Scrum Team priorities.
• Partners with the Product Owner to ensure the backlog items are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team.

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