Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Agile Coach/Scrum Master–255029

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Primary Location CA-San Francisco

Full-time / Part-time Full-time

Employee Status Temporary

Overtime Status Exempt

Job Type Experienced

Travel Yes, 5 % of the Time

Shift Day Job

Job Sensitivity Tier II – No Credit Check

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is looking for an Agile Coach/Scrum Master for a temporary assignment (one year) here in our San Francisco location. As a temporary employee of the Fed, you are salaried and benefited, and work directly for the Bank for a temporary period of time. Position has potential to become full time/regular after one year or sooner.

In this important role, you will leverage your practical Agile/Scrum experience, and theoretical training to support our IT professionals in further developing their Agile/Scrum practices and knowledge base. We are looking for a continuous learner with recent Agile training, who has a highly collaborative “servant leader” style approach, to engage and inspire our team.

Essential Responsibilities:
Design and deliver transformational Agile training to teams, Scrum Masters, product owners, functional managers, and executives
Deliver hands-on coaching for individual teams on all aspects of Scrum and Kanban (roles and responsibilities, daily meetings, planning at different levels, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, metrics which aid continuous improvement, managing flow, WIP limits, etc.)
Coach development teams on project initiation, organization, goal and change management aspects of Agile
Develop Agile training materials, and deliver Agile training sessions, workshops, and one-on-one coaching for Business and IT participants
Assess application product teams against Agile best practices and provide recommendations to senior leadership
Develop, track, and communicate Agile adoption and progress metrics at team as well as organizational level; analyze metrics and progress to make recommendations to mediate risks
Partner with all levels of management to ensure organizational alignment with Agile frameworks
Discover opportunities to champion Agile values, principles and adoption across the organization
Welcome servant leadership and demonstrate behaviors in line with Lean principles
Encourage and develop self-sustainable communities of practice

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s preferred
Minimum ten years of experience using Agile frameworks and two+ years coaching Agile project teams
Experience successfully transforming teams and organizations from traditional, ad hoc methods to Agile frameworks
Five+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or product owner
15 years of relevant IT experience; at least eight years in a technical software development environment, or with IT Project Management
Documented recent (last two years) Agile training/conference/user group attendance, with on-going involvement in the Agile community and continuous improvement and growth
Potential for occasional travel
Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner a plus

At the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco we believe in the diversity of our people, ideas, and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive culture that is representative of the communities we serve. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity Employer.