Scrum Master (Irvine, CA/Ontario, CA)
About Origence
With 30 years at the forefront of fintech innovation, we specialize in SaaS lending solutions that lead the industry. Our core mission is customer-centric, focusing on empowering Credit Unions across the United States with the tools to offer accessible, competitive lending services. We're deeply committed to enhancing the financial ecosystem for a broad network of credit unions, members and auto dealers. We invest in our greatest assets, our employees, and foster a culture of innovation and ownership through freedom and responsibility. We celebrate fiscal accountability, operational rigor and efficiency to create a sustainably healthy and robust business for the long term.
Responsibilities
- Act as a servant-leader to facilitate and support teams in the day-to-day operation of their agile practices.
- Facilitate team events like Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
- Facilitate/help with program events – breakouts during PI planning, system demo, problem solving during I&A.
- Support the team in identifying and help the team in addressing impediments that prevent the team from achieving the sprint goals. Take action where necessary to remove the impediments.
- Drive improvements through retrospectives by deriving insights from data and dashboards.
- Helps achieve transparency and conflict resolution.
- Maintains and improves the flow of value delivery.
- Coaches and mentors support to teams or individuals to help improve performance and achieve goals.
- Provides training to impart or reinforce knowledge of Lean-Agile concepts, tools and practices.
- Provides support with risk management, release management, and facilitates release planning activities.
Requirements
- Experience in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), or any scaled environment is required.
- 3-5 years of experience in a software development environment.
- 3-5 years working in an Agile team.
- 3-5 years of experience as a Scrum Master.
- Demonstrated expert knowledge of agile principles, practices, and methods.
- Demonstrated use of Agile metrics to track the Team and Release progress.
- Practical experience of servant-leadership in agile teams.
- Experience in participating in program events like PI planning etc.
- Excellent organizational and facilitation skills during system demo, I&A problem solving etc.
- Exceptional in oral, written, and presentation communication with team, RTE and others.
- Self-starting mentality and willingness to take ownership of difficult challenges.
- Desire to drive change, implement new ways of working and think "out of the box”.
- Excellent knowledge of PC based computer systems, including MS Word, Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.
Qualifications
- BA/BS degree in a technical or related field.
- Preferred qualifications include Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
- Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) Certification.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, and/or JIRA.
Benefits
The starting salary range for this full-time position is $78,600 - $98,200 per year. This base pay will take into consideration internal equity, candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge and experience among other factors. Origence maintains a highly competitive compensation program. Under company guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual bonus to provide an incentive to achieve targeted goals. Bonuses are awarded at company’s discretion on an individual basis.
Pay
The starting salary range for this full-time position is $78,600 - $98,200 per year.
Schedule
This is a full-time position.