Awm, Marcus, Project Scrum Master, Associate, Dallas

Wealth Management

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our direct-to-consumer business provides digital solutions that help customers save and invest. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data and design.

Marcus by Goldman Sachs

The firm's direct-to-consumer business, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, combines the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up with more than 150 years of experience. Today, we serve millions of customers across multiple products, leveraging innovative design, data, engineering and other core capabilities to provide customers with powerful tools and products that are grounded in value, transparency and simplicity

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Facilitate Scrum events and other ad-hoc meetings for teams. Facilitating multi-team events like Big Room Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and story mapping.

• Assist Product Owners and teams in story writing, back log maintenance and prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs.

• Serve as team or program information radiator, representing the team or program to senior management, stakeholders and sponsors.

• Effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making at the team or program level.

• Facilitate estimation and planning at the team or program level. Assisting in creating useful, reliable and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases.

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

• Help teams and individuals clarify goals, and actions to achieve them.

• Shield the team from outside distractions, context switching and interferences.

• Track and remove impediments.

• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching to higher levels of maturity

• Build a safe environment with an emphasis on collaboration and problem solving

• Participate in Agile Communities of Practice across Goldman Sachs

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• 5 years experience as a Scrum Master for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.

• Prior experience building and testing software or implementing DevOps

• 3 years of experience with scaled Agile (SAFE, LESS) in a hands-on leadership role (e.g., Release Train Engineer, Agile Program Manager)

• Knowledge of other approaches in the Agile space: Kanban, Lean, etc.

• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, etc.

• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

• Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burn down techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to communication anywhere from the team level to C-level executives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Leadership role in a large-scale Agile transformation

• Experience in Scrum Master and scaled Agile or transformation roles in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)

• Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum and Agile, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.

• Active participant in the Agile community.

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.

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html