AVP-IAM Scrum Master (L10)

Responsibilities

• Lead teams and the organization on how to best use Agile principles/frameworks and effectively leverages appropriate best practices.
• Advocate for autonomous, self-organizing, empowered, and continuously improving teams.
• Act as Scrum Master for assigned Scrum/Kanban teams, facilitating ceremonies such as, stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Manage Sprints - keeping order, process, delivery, priorities accurate and on time.
• Keep agile team focused on concrete priorities while keeping outside influences from disrupting the agile team and actively identify and remove waste and distractions.
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and other stakeholders to understand the expected product functionality and customer requirements.
• Assist in removing team impediments, and track and maintain metrics. Promote collaboration, transparency, and communicate accurate and timely information to stakeholders.
• Create, assess, update and maintain agile documentation.
• Generates agile metrics reports indicating velocity, burn-down, etc.
• Experience working on Releases.
• Collaborate and coordinate with related teams for Releases and get approvals
• Lead projects in Waterfall to Agile methodologies.
• Support transition to Agile.
• Be the Agile learnings lead for the ART.
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.
• Qualifications/Requirements:
• Minimum 5+ year of experienGraduate degree in any discipline with minimum 6+ year of IT experience, or in lieu of a degree minimum 8+ years of experience.ce with Jira, Agile, and other project management tools.
• Minimum 5 years of working in Agile transformation as a Scrum Master.
• Hands-on experience in agile, scrum master, project manager roles.
• SAFe Agilist, SAFE Scrum Master certification is a must.
• Desired Characteristics:
• InfoSec/IAM business and technology experience is a plus.
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Benefits

Additional Information

Job Description: Job Description Role Title : AVP-IAM Scrum Master (L10) Company Overview : Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry's most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more. - We have recently been ranked #2 among India's Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India's Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by AmbitionBox Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies. - We provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being. - We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities for all to take up leadership roles. Organizational Overview The IAM portfolio is responsible for enabling secure and compliant access to enterprise applications, systems, and data across the organization. The portfolio covers key Identity and Access Management capabilities including access provisioning, deprovisioning, privileged access management, governance and compliance, authentication services, role management, and identity lifecycle processes. We support multiple Agile teams delivering enhancements, regulatory requirements, security initiatives, operational improvements, and technology modernization efforts. Given the critical nature of IAM, the portfolio operates with a high volume of dependencies, release activities, stakeholder engagements, and regulatory commitments. Over time, the scope and demand have increased significantly, which has expanded the workload on the existing Scrum Masters and created the need for additional capacit Role Summary/Purpose: Information Security - IAM Scrum Master will be responsible for leading two or more of our SAFe agile scrum teams on InfoSec projects and initiatives. This individual will also be responsible for mentoring and coaching teams and other scrum masters through agile methodologies. As an AVP Scrum Master, in this role, you will be responsible for leading agile scrum teams executing the InfoSec Agile roadmap, and facilitating strategic and tactical conversations among a wide range of business and technical stakeholders. This role is responsible for collaborating with IAM product owners, technical leads, clients and other stakeholders in delivering a seamless customer experience in the IAM space, and leading the Agile teams to deliver. The ideal candidate will be a strong agile process SME and coach on agile methodologies. The ideal candidate will have a strong experience in SAFe methodology and a project management background with a focus on technology and Agile development, as well as a proven track record of delivering critical initiatives.

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