Agilist / Scrum Master

at  US Bank National Association

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

JOB DESCRIPTION

NOTE: This role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there’s an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days. Location: Minneapolis, MN
Risk Technology Services (RTS) is on an agile journey and as a Agilist / Scrum Master, you will be guiding one or more agile teams through their journey and help driving agile transformation across our internal products and lines of business. You will be part of the RTS “Being Agile” initiative targeting cultural and behavior changes across our organization at the individual, team, leadership, and customer levels. You will help teams and partners understand difference from doing agile and “being agile”.
You are customer obsessed with a focus on serving product teams, ensuring all product vision, planning and development activities are rooted in Agile and Product Values & Principles. You enable the organization to consistently experiment and evolve business strategy based on prior outcomes and feedback. You drive culture change through day to day to work with a focus on Agile & Product mindset, values and continuous improvement and keep the team focused on achieving product goals using agile methods.
Own the agile practices of the team/product group/journey including cross-portfolio impacts, planning, dependency maps, OKRs and key metrics for success in partnership with Product Management, business partners, digital and technology modelling agile methods, values, and principles. Provide regular communication to stakeholders and partners for transparency and awareness of outcomes and impediments; creates visual displays and communications with key information and agile updates for leadership.

PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Typically three to five years of relevant experience
• Proficient agile practice professional
• Effective presentation, verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• At least 5 years of experience in Agile technology delivery and Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) teams
• At least 3 years of experience in a Scrum environment
• Agile mindset of continuous improvement
• Report/Metric creation or equivalent work experience
• Knowledge of Agile principles and practices and capacity to understand specific needs or requirements to apply skills/knowledge
• Understanding of fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Working knowledge of the software development process – design, development, test, and deployment
• Experience training teams and/or communities of practice (COP)
• Strong communication, collaboration, leadership, conflict resolution, budgeting and time management skills
• CSM (Certified Scrum Master) certification a plus
• Experience with Excel and PowerPoint and/or Mural

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by la