First National Bank of Omaha – Scrum Master – bend by FNBO – Omaha, NE

Job title: Scrum Master - bend by FNBO Company: First National Bank of Omaha Job description: At FNBO, our employees are the heart of our story—and we’re committed to their success! Please see below the details of this career opportunity and how it fits into our organization’s success. Our Modern, Flexible Workplace: At First National, we believe in a Modern, Flexible Workplace, and we are continuously exploring advancements in technology and office environments to make it easier to work from anywhere at any time, allowing for more flexibility in where and how you work. We know that choice and flexibility are important to you. We also recognize that flexible and remote positions can become opportunities for military partners, caregivers, and individuals with disabilities to thrive at First National. We invite you to consider what a Modern, Flexible Workplace can mean for you! It is anticipated that an incumbent in this role will work remotely for three (3) or more days a week and will share a hoteling workspace when working onsite. Work location is subject to change based on business needs. Summary of the Job: We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master who can ensure the agile software development processes are followed by the team. The Scrum Master must have confidence to remove obstacles and distractions that may impede the team from meeting goals. This individual will be required to manage cross-functionally between the software development product team and people or teams outside the Scrum team. About This Role: Location: Omaha, NE or Remote The Opportunity: Join Bend by FNBO’s team to help us revolutionize consumer payments by creating a digital credit card services business. This business will deliver the speed and agility that digital-first fintech’s and API-driven brands need to drive loyalty and value through card payments. Our Credit Card-as-a-Service ("CaaS") platform is a collection of cloud native API products and services that are led by technology and being built with a product mindset; shifting away from how legacy card issuers work today. We are building our platform offering to attract digitally native brand partners who seek best in class API Card Products that can be seamlessly embedded into their digital brand customer experience. The CaaS team operates from a Product-led API first approach working “outside-in” to ensure we are focused on meeting the customers’ needs up front. This means, we obsess over delivering high value experiences for customers and users at each step. This journey to create something new and innovative needs an individual to join our team who can embrace a start-up mentality, is fearless, can work alongside a high-functioning team and commit to exceeding expectations. Bend by FNBO is looking for a highly motivated, passionate, self-driven individual that enjoys creating software centric products within our CaaS API platform. Our Team goal is to stay centered and focused on the customer, deliver products to our partners that solve real customer problems while at the same time, protect the Bank. Role Description: About This Role: We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master who can ensure the agile software development processes are followed by the team. The Scrum Master must have confidence to remove obstacles and distractions that may impede the team from meeting goals. This individual will be required to manage cross-functionally between the software development product team and people or teams outside the Scrum team. • Scheduling and conducting meetings such as Daily standups or Huddle meetings, One on ones, Sprint planning, and Retrospectives - Ensuring everyone on the team is on the same page while they engage in short bursts of productive software development work (sprints). • Scrum board administration (JIRA boards) where the visualization of sprint progress is tracked (todo’s, doing, done, backlog…). They are responsible for detailing all the tasks (stories) at hand and those already completed across a sprint while holding team members accountable to commitments. The scrum master is also accountable for investigating tasks or stories that are not moving along and optimize the board for optimal team performance • Support and motivate teams according to the scrum framework while developing self-organizing teams that are empowered to “DO”. They also operate in the background, identifying blockers that get in the way of productive work. The scrum master must have excellent interpersonal communication skills that help them support and motivate developers daily. • Having a bird’s eye view of software development requires a person to oversee it by having a working knowledge of the software development process, including its various steps via code implementation, unit testing, deployments, quality assurance, functional and nonfunctional requirement development, etc. a scrum master must know about the organization’s expectations from engineers so they can better negotiate the team’s productivity patterns per scrum practices. • Proficient in agile methodologies and scrum management as SME’s in: • Scrum Theory - Ability to make decisions from what teams observe and minimize both waste and risk. • Scrum Values - Embrace 5 values to maximize potential of scrum - commitment, focus, openness, respect, and courage ("No Fear”) • Scrum Events - Identify milestones that enable scrum success - sprints, daily scrums, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives • Scrum Artifacts - Creating deliverables that enable transparency and drive the work forward Role Responsibilities: • Servant leader: Serves and supports the needs of the other team members and helps them achieve optimal results in terms of customer requirements and organizational goals • Coach or guru: Ability to focus on the individual development of each team member helping to improve the engineer’s mindset or behavior to bring out their full potential • Mentor and teacher: Educates team members on agile principles and how to follow scrum rules by teaching the team agile development in the nuances of the model • Facilitator or impediment remover: Identifies and removes roadblocks to the team’s daily progress while also encouraging collaboration, which is a cornerstone of agile development • Manager: Manages the process-oriented aspects of scrum, such as task board administration, meetings, reviews, etc. while also trying to reduce waste and optimize processes where possible • Change advocate: Challenges the status quo and natures cultural change within an organization while also fostering improvements in the workplace so that teams can maintain or improve creativity and flourish Preferred Qualifications: Team Fit: We hire not only on hard skills but also based on soft skills, which for us has equal weightage as you need to be a team player and fit in with the team well. No one internal or external, should feel they are walking on eggshells when trying to approach you. Here are some of the things we look for in soft skills. • A lot of Passion and Energy • Innovation-Driven thinker and willingness to share ideas • Integrity, humility, honesty, and transparency • Willingness to lead and help others succeed • Strong desire to achieve - self-driven • Results focused • No-Fear attitude • Highly collaborative and open minded • Ability to communicate clearly and respectfully with customers, partners, and team members Skill Sets: • Experience in field - Minimum 2 years of experience as a Scrum Master working with teams relevant to software product development - CSM (Certified Scrum Master), CPO (Certified Product Owner), or PMI-ACP a plus • Training in agile development - Should have prior training in agile development practices and all its processes. • Planning and organizational skills - Must have excellent organizational skill sets with or without agile training and capable of enforcing a clear sprint plan • Familiarity with cloud technologies and basic understanding of cloud native development • Conflict resolution skills - Must be capable of addressing interpersonal grievances and dissatisfaction at individual level regarding different personalities, pressures dealing with strict timelines and delivery expectations • Coaching and mentorship capabilities - Must be able to offer strategic support as and when required, coaching team members to perform at their best. • Communication and listening skills - Must be able to listen to others and also make themselves heard when the situation demands. • Negotiation and expectation management - Ability to speak with different stakeholders and enforce a sprint plan that is suitable for all. It must healthily drive developer productivity while meeting the expectations of product management, Technology and Business at the same time. • Excellent negotiation skills - The scrum master needs to balance the needs of the business to the development team. • Estimation and forecasting - Must be capable of estimating which plans and task permutations or combinations have the highest chance of working out while also having the foresight to anticipate problems before they emerge. Must be comfortable to change directions based on competing priorities. • Problem-solving capabilities - Should be able to think outside the box if extraneous circumstances arise. • Adaptability to rules and processes - Must bring genuine respect for rules and processes, coupled with their understanding of the rationale behind scrum. The job role involves daily outlining tasks and procedures based on a well-defined guidebook and set of values. The candidate should have the personality and soft skills necessary to embody these rules and enforce them meaningfully throughout a sprint. What We Offer: We’re a small team within a larger organization. We are empowered by our CEO to go build the future. We’re pioneers in our space of modernizing credit card issuance and hence that’s how we are getting ready to offer Credit Card-as-a-Service (Caas), a revolutionary API-driven platform. • We have built our teams where you are empowered to take and make decisions. • We have a hybrid WFH approach where local team members work in office and also work from home each week • We offer non-accrued PTO, which means you have unlimited paid time off.. We want you to have a healthy work/life balance. • Apple hardware: Mac Laptops, Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboards and in office work space with really nice large 4k monitors. • Free healthy snacks for in-office employees + a fancy coffee machine for our team! • Most importantly, besides all that, a great work environment where you’ll love coming to work everyday. Prepare yourself to get comfortable with colleagues that are smart, respectful and naturally nice. Humor is welcome! The Ideal Candidate for This Role: . Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion: FNBO is committed to belonging, inclusion, diversity and equity. We are committed to intentionally and proactively creating pathways to success for historically underrepresented populations. To accomplish this, we foster a culture of belonging and inclusion so that every employee is valued, and has opportunity and the ability to make an impact. FNBO strives to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in the makeup of our workforce. See the full FNBO Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Statement All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. to download 'EEO is The Law' Self-Print Poster to download 'EEO is The Law' Supplement for Federal Contractors to download 'EEO is The Law' GINA Supplement Expected salary: Location: Omaha, NE Apply for the job now! [ad_2] Apply tot his job Apply To this Job