Associate Agile Practices

As an Associate Agile Practices, you will act as a servant leader to an Agile team, educating them on Scaled Agile practices and values to maximize efficiency and performance. You will coach teams in self-organization and continuous improvement, ensuring consistent delivery of customer value. Key responsibilities include managing risks, mitigating impediments, facilitating Scrum events, and collaborating with Product Owners to ensure clear user stories. You will also work with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches to enhance Scaled Agile effectiveness.

Must Have

• Act as Servant leader to an Agile team.
• Educate Agile teams on Scaled Agile practices and values.
• Coach Agile teams in self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Guide Agile teams to consistently deliver customer value.
• Manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies.
• Facilitate Scrum events (Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement, Reviews, Retrospectives).
• Work with Product Owners to ensure clear, concise, prioritized user stories.
• Establish and maintain open and clear team communication.
• 2+ years experience as a Scrum Master.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Basic knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Proven ability to identify and mitigate risks.
• Team-first, servant leader mentality.

Good to Have

• Ability to build and sustain trust at all levels.
• Ability to develop and foster teamwork.
• Emotional intelligence, level-headed diplomat, skilled listener, clear communicator, strong empathy.
• Ability to remain objective and constructive in all situations.
• Ability to facilitate constructive debate and resolve disagreements.
• Deliver hands-on training and coaching of defined Agile practices.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and cross-regionally.
• Understand other engineering processes and methodologies.

Perks & Benefits

• Health & Wellness coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime with generous time off.
• Continuous Learning resources to grow your career.
• Competitive pay, retirement planning, and a continuing education program with company-matched student loan contribution.
• Financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks for partners and children.
• Retail discounts.
• Referral incentive awards.

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 08

The Team:

In this role, you will be working with a team of enthusiastic members supporting our critical technology systems and guiding our business partners & end users with industry best practices, solution design, and creating long term value to our customers.

Responsibilities and Impact:

• Act as Servant leader to an an Agile team.
• Educate Agile teams to maximize efficiencies and performance from Scaled Agile practices and values.
• Coach Agile teams in self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Guide the Agile teams to consistently deliver customer value.
• Manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies within and across Agile teams.
• Facilitate Scrum events including, Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Work with Product Owners to ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by every member of the Agile team.
• Establish and maintain open and clear lines of team communication to facilitate progress transparency.
• Work with peer Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and Agile Coaches to increase the effectiveness of Scaled Agile.

What We’re Looking For:

• A person with ‘Team First’ mindset with an ability to build and sustain trust at all levels across the organization
• Ability to develop and foster teamwork. Ability to gauge how the team is doing and to drive the necessary actions to improve
• Emotional intelligence, level-headed diplomat, skilled listener, and clear communicator, with strong empathy traits, able to remain objective and constructive in all situations
• Ability to facilitate constructive debate and resolve disagreements and conflicts constructively
• Deliver hands-on training and coaching of defined Agile practices to individual teams and programs.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and cross-regionally across multiple Product portfolios
• Understand other engineering processes and methodologies and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/Enterprise

Basic Required Qualifications:

• Experience 2+ years as a Scrum Master
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Basic knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Proven ability to identify and mitigate risks
• Team-first, servant leader mentality

About S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.

For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

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