Senior Scrum Master

Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it - we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.
Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.
Job Description:
What You'll Do
Responsible for adopting and promoting Agile methodologies and related ceremonies within a cross functional team agile team. Provides ongoing oversight during feature/user story grooming and sprint development. Manages Sprint release timeline, stand-ups and other ceremonies, and helps remove blockers to ensure agile releases stay on track.
How You'll Do It

• Facilitates team activities including daily stand-up meetings, grooming, sprint planning, demonstrations, release planning and team retrospectives.
• Identifies dependencies between agile teams and communicates and resolves dependencies between different teams.
• Manages Sprint release deliverables and proactively identifies and resolves impediments to ensure Sprint release stays on track and update Sprint activities in Agile planning and execution tracking tool.

Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here's what we need from you:

• Bachelors Information Technology or related
• Experience with coaching and mentoring skills on agile methodology and understands scrum framework

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United Kingdom on a full-time basis.
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on May-07-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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