Summary
Join Aperia Solutions, a leader in SaaS solutions for the Payments and Compliance industries. Aperia is a Texas-based fintech and managed consultancy firm that creates custom SaaS applications and other software-based solutions for the payments, banking, and processing industry. Founded in 1999, Aperia offers business intelligence, risk management, compliance, and customer intelligence platforms. With offices in Dallas, Washington DC, and Vietnam, Aperia is a fast-paced, global organization that strives to improve efficiency in compliance, risk, and customer service operations. Aperia’s clients include banks, processors, payment facilitators, merchant service providers, independent sales organizations, and government entities. A career at Aperia promises a great challenge, culture, and opportunities to forge your own path.
Job Description
At Aperia, we rely on a dynamic team of Scrum Masters. We’re seeking a Scrum Master who is ready to work with new technologies and challenges in a forward-thinking organization that’s always pushing boundaries.
Core Responsibilities
- Facilitate Iteration/Scrum and ART events (PI Planning, Daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Review/Demo and Retrospective)
- Coach the Agile Team in self-organization and cross-functionality
- Identify and remove impediments or roadblocks that may hinder team productivity and success.
- Optimize Flow and Team progress through backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, etc
- Understand and practice agility throughout the Product Life Cycle
- Encourage continual improvement and innovation in the platform and application development process
- Lean-Agile Champion that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team
- Be responsible as coordinator and fixer of all issues and ensure that the team can deliver with minimal blockers.
- Identify areas of improvement, encourage cross training and automation of manual work.
- Oversee and provide regular status reporting on Scope, Risk and Schedule Management to assure implementation of approved PRD.
- Develop a deep knowledge of all aspects of the project, define priorities and effectively manage planning, execution, and monitoring to successful conclusion.
- Responsible for the overall day to day facilitation of one or more Agile teams and in conjunction with Project management task as assign.
Functional Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with product owners, development teams, and stakeholders to drive continuous improvement and deliver business value.
- Lead and Coach employees and stakeholders to understand, enact, and adopt Scrum practices.
- Work with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of the Teams and ART across in the organization.
- Promote a culture of transparency, trust, and collaboration within the team and across the organization.
- Serve as a Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams, ensuring effective and efficient delivery of projects.
- Coach the new teams in organizational environments in which Agile is not yet fully adopted and understood.
- Drive the adoption of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles and practices, enabling successful delivery across multiple teams and projects.
- Provide leadership and guidance to teams in adopting and optimizing Agile methodologies, tools, and practices.
Technical Skills
- Good English skills (both verbal and written)
- Minimum 5 years applicable experience with 2 years working as Scrum Master.
- Strong expertise in Lean-Agile mindset and Frameworks, including Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban
- Experience implementing best Agile practices and standards, and mentoring/teaching junior practitioners.
- Excellent facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills
- Scrum Master certification (e.g. CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP and SSM)
- Experience with Agile tools Jira
Things that will separate you from the rest.
- Experience working in the Fintech industry.
- MS in any Engineering discipline, MS in Management program or an MBA.
- SAFe certifications – SSM, SASM, ASE, PMI-ACP etc.
Education or Certifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration or related discipline or equivalent experience
Job Type
- Full-Time
Schedule
- Monday to Friday
Work Location
- The Six8 Building: 24 Phan Dinh Giot, Tan Binh District, HCMC
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Childcare assistance
- Education reimbursement
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may also perform other reasonable related business duties as assigned by their immediate supervisor or management. Principals only.
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