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What We'll Bring:

Experienced scrum master to support two scrum teams with hybrid compositions of both onshore and offshore resources.

What You'll Bring:

Impact You'll Make:

In this role, you will serve as a Scrum Master for two teams: one is a team of onshore and offshore resources to deliver Decisioning and fraud market initiatives on our Decisioning platform, the other is a team of offshore developers with onshore product support, providing delivery on our Ab Initio platform, a general-purpose data processing platform. We are seeking a technically savvy individual with the strong collaborative skills required to manage initiatives of varying scope.

• You will be the primary contact to internal stakeholders (Product Management, IT, Portfolio management etc.) and will be accountable for ensuring there is release delivery alignment. Ensure the teams stay focused and know the tasks they must accomplish in the time given and meeting the sprint goals/ PI objectives.
• Understand and embody the general principles of Agile with an emphasis on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Uphold the principles of Scrum, be a servant leader with experience mentoring and coaching teams on Agile methodology and Scrum values and process.
• Support the Product Owner for healthy backlog management.
• Facilitate all Scrum events (Daily stand up, Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, backlog refinement etc) , participate in Agile Release Train (ART) ceremonies including PI (Program Increment) Planning, ART Synch, and empower the team’s commitment to PI and sprint objectives.
• Organize PO Synchup on everyday basis to ensure communication flow.
• Initiate/Participate in cross organization dependencies for/from other Scrum teams (Scrum-of-Scrum). Help the team to stay updated in terms of dependencies, backlog, risks or other concerning areas.
• Track and monitor milestones, facilitate mitigation of risks and issues, ensuring transparency and visibility to the organization.
• Collaborate with the team and other members of the ART to identify and resolve problems, remove impediments/barriers for the team; escalating to the RTE as needed.
• Ensure that release deliverables are submitted and that quality standards defined by the team are consistently met (per acceptance criteria and definition of done).
• Daily maintenance of Jira boards, ensuring accuracy and completeness of all data and information.
• Estimation – Facilitate estimation from Epic to Story level - support in understanding the estimation of the backlog items both at sprint and epic level.

Impact You'll Make:

What We’ll bring:

Our quest to modernizing the way we do technology is not slowing down anytime soon. We continue to make big strides in our agile transformation to bring the latest in products and solutions to our customers. Our agile teams have the potential to shape the future by solving thought-provoking problems and using transformational technology to further enhance our capabilities in this data-driven world. Helping our clients build trust begins with a strong team of innovators ready to pave the way with strategy and optimization in mind. You’ll have the chance to thrive in a culture of ownership and delivery as these efforts continue to expand. As technology evolves, our advantage in having an ecosystem of innovation and modernization creates an unmatchable environment. These advantages can enable you to be at the center of groundbreaking discoveries.

What You’ll bring:

• A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience working with and coaching Scrum teams
• A minimum of 5-8 years’ of applicable business experience in Information Technology and risk industry (credit or financial services background preferred)
• Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies and Agile at Enterprise Scale
• Strong facilitation and collaboration skills
• Technical proficiency and skill level to learn solution configurations
• Excellent listening and communication skills

We'd Love to See:

• Certification(s) in Agile methodologies (such as PMI-ACP, CSM, SA, SASM or equivalent) preferred
• Experience utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 
• Strong understanding of and demonstrated experience in using Jira

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

TransUnion Job Title

Sr Consultant, Project Management