Scrum Master Roles and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies:

Lead and guide the team through daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives, ensuring they are productive and time-boxed.

• Remove impediments:

Proactively identify and eliminate obstacles, conflicts, and issues that hinder the team's progress, coordinating with external groups or stakeholders as needed.

• Coach and mentor:

Guide the team in adopting and practicing Agile principles and Scrum values, helping them develop self-management and continuous improvement skills.

• Shield the team:

Protect the team from external interference and distractions to allow them to focus on delivering value during the sprint.

MUST-HAVE Hard Skills:

1.) Risk, impediment and dependency management

2.) CSM certification (any scrum master cert works)

3.) Program Increment planning - quarterly planning etc.

SOFT SKILLS:

1.) Strong communication skills

2.) Detail oriented

3.) Strong facilitator (facilitating scrum ceremonies)

NICE-TO-HAVE

1.) Scaled Agile certification

2.) Banking or financial institution experience

3.) Release Train Engineer experience (knowledge)

4.) Project Management experience