Job Description:

The mission of the Agile team is increasing the value, transparency, and happiness of software delivery teams through Agile and related practices. We coach individuals, teams and programs. This forward-looking group defines scaling practices, team-level best practices, tooling, and reporting, and will always be on the front line of agility within the firm.

As a member of Agile, this Associate-level Scrum Master will help drive the success of individual teams while working with senior Agile professionals as a custodian for continuous improvement in how delivery teams become high-performing teams that consistently deliver customer value.

You Will:

Facilitate and support Agile events including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective

Influence team behavior towards continuous improvement through effective communication, ensuring alignment with organizational goals

Coach engineers, designers, product owners and subject matter experts in Agile practices, values and principles

Ensure Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines

Guide team members in story writing and refinement, backlog maintenance, prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs

Coach developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles

Work with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role

Track and remove impediments, and guide the team to remove impediments

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent industry experience

Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles

Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills

Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices

Comfortable with Scrum concepts like refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques

Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with Atlassian JIRA:

3 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

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Salary Range

The expected base salary for this Albany, New York, United States-based position is $95000-$145000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits

Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.

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