Job description

Merrick Bank employees share in our mission to delight our customers and empower underserved consumers to achieve their credit goals. In return, we delight our associates; ensuring they are noticed, heard, appreciated and understand the importance of their role(s). For over 20 years, our Guiding Principles of; doing the right thing, putting the customer first, and Earn, Learn, Have Fun (aka E.L.F.), have defined who we are as an Employer of Choice. Give Yourself Credit, Work at Merrick!

The Scrum Master will coach the team in self-organization and cross-functionality, facilitates scrum ceremonies, remove impediments to the team’s progress, and understand and manage the team’s capacity, to ensure team execution and timely delivery of committed work.

In addition, the Scrum Master will support activities of the product owners and will collaborate with other members of the organization to further their understanding and adoption of agile practices and the Scrum Framework.

Essential Functions:

• Serve as scrum master for multiple scrum teams and coach them to achieve higher levels of scrum maturity.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies including daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review/demo, grooming and retrospectives.
• Create visibility into the progress of each sprint through use of velocity, burn down charts, committed vs. completed metrics, etc. Maintain this data over time to show team progression over time.
• Evangelize Agile/Scrum best practices both inside IT and throughout other business units.
• Facilitate continuous improvement opportunities that focus on inspiring teams to be self-organized and high-performing.
• Facilitate the removal of impediments and guide the team on early identification of impediments and both internal and external dependencies to increase successful sprint completion.
• Foster great working relationships with your team, stakeholders and customers.
• Encourage collaboration and problem solving, be comfortable presenting ideas and information in-group setting, and work effectively in a matrixed environment.
• Manage special projects as requested by management.
• Responsible for complying with all of the Bank’s internal control policies and procedures.
• Responsible for understanding and complying with all laws and regulations to which the Bank is subject.
• Responsible for communicating problems in operations, noncompliance with the code of conduct, noncompliance with laws and regulations, policy violations, or illegal acts.

Education and Experience:

• Experience in Agile Scrum required with 3+ years’ experience.

Summary of Qualifications:

• Must possess an in-depth knowledge of the principles of Agile Scrum, and the software development lifecycle through hands on experience. Must understand other agile approaches like Kanban and XP.
• Possess excellent conflict resolution, coaching, communication, mentoring, and servant leadership skills.
• Experience working with Product Owners and Product Managers to validate or write user stories to ensure they meet definition of ready.
• Must possess the skills and knowledge of conflict resolution, continual improvement, servant leadership, situational awareness, and increasing transparency.
• Must be an excellent communicator, able to gain the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and management.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; able to influence others and build trust at all levels.
• Proficiency in JIRA preferred.
• Ability to work with team members to size stories, plan and forecast through the use of proper estimating techniques.
• Demonstrate a high level of dependability in all aspects of the job; foster an environment that is relationship and customer focused.

Who is Merrick Bank? Founded over 20 years ago, Merrick Bank is a FDIC-insured Utah Industrial Loan Bank that originates loans with the benefit of low-cost deposit funding. Merrick Bank had $4.5 billion in assets and $3.1 billion in deposits as of March 31, 2021. Merrick Bank operates four main business lines: Credit Cards, Recreation Lending, Personal Loans and Merchant Acquiring.

Our Valued Employees are provided generous benefits, including:

• Competitive Pay
• Benefits Package -Medical, Dental and Vision (plus much more)
• 401(k) Plan with Company Match
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Group Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days
• Employee Events, including Employee Appreciation Day, Holiday Party, etc.
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

Candidates must have unrestricted authority to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Merrick Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristic.
Merrick Bank will do a thorough background check for all hires. The EEOC Law poster is available here: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/poster.cfm Please go to our website www.merrickbank.com to apply and learn more about our company.

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Hybrid remote in South Jordan, UT 84095

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