Silicon Valley Bank Looking for Senior IT Project Manager – India at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

BE PART OF A BANK LIKE NO OTHER.

When you work with the world’s most innovative companies, you know you’re making a difference.

Our clients are the game changers, leaders and investors who fuel the global innovation economy. They’re the businesses behind the next medical breakthroughs. And the visionaries whose new technologies could transform the way people live and work.

They come to SVB for our expertise, deep network and nearly forty years of experience in the industries we serve, and to partner with diverse teams of passionate, enterprising SVBers, dedicated to an inclusive approach to helping them grow and succeed at every stage of their business.

Join us at SVB and be part of bringing our clients’ world-changing ideas to life. At SVB, we have the opportunity to grow and collectively make an impact by supporting the innovative clients and communities SVB serves. We pride ourselves in having both a diverse client roster and an equally diverse and inclusive organization. And we work diligently to encourage all with different ways of thinking, different ways of working, and especially those traditionally underrepresented in technology and financial services, to apply.

Job Description

Senior IT Project Manager

SVB India is a global delivery center for SVB, the financial partner of the innovation economy and parent of Silicon Valley Bank. SVB India develops products and provides services in finance, banking operations, and technology, and employs more than 800 employees and will be rapidly expanding. SVB’s businesses – Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Capital, SVB Private and SVB Securities – together offer the services that dynamic and fast-growing clients require as they grow. Learn more at svb.com/careers

Job location – Bangalore, Chennai,Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune

Be Part Of a Bank Like No Other.

When you work with the world’s most innovative companies, you know you’re making a difference.

Our clients are the game changers, leaders and investors who fuel the global innovation economy. They’re the businesses behind the next medical breakthroughs. And the visionaries whose new technologies could transform the way people live and work.

For 35 years, SVB Financial Group (NASDAQ SIVB) and its subsidiaries have helped innovative companies and their investors move ambitious ideas forward, fast. SVB Financial Group’s businesses, including Silicon Valley Bank, operate at the intersection of innovation and capital, and provide a comprehensive range of financial services including commercial banking, investment solutions, research and insights, funds management and private banking and wealth advisory. SVB helps high growth companies in the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity and venture capital, and premium wine industries navigate at every stage. In addition, the company focuses on encouraging positive relationships with firms within the private equity and venture capital community worldwide, many of which are also the firm’s clients and may invest in the firm’s corporate clients.

About the Job

SVB is seeking an experienced Scrum Master/Lead to lead and drive the value delivery for two or more Data Engineering scrum teams. This role is aligned to the Program Delivery team in the Technology Data Engineering Division.

Responsibilities include alignment with business stakeholders, working with cross-functional partners, and owning oversight of execution to achieve successful value delivery. The daily application of agile and lean principles, championing scrum practices, coaching and training team members on Agile methodology, and advocating continuous improvement to build high-performing teams are key aspects of this position

The ideal candidate will:

• Provide leadership building multiple high-performing Agile teams, coaching team members in the execution of the practices and responsibilities of their individual roles and as a team together
• Champion the adoption and improvement of Scrum practices on direct and indirect teams
• Lead increment and sprint planning sessions, daily scrum, backlog refinement, and sprint retrospective meetings
• Building a psychologically safe environment where problems are raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged with an emphasis on problem-solving
• Responsible for the health and planning of the sprint backlog and prioritizations of epics, features, and stories as part of the cadence for regular delivery of value to the organization
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners to prepare and clarify the product backlog
• Document and lead remediation efforts and removal of impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
• Consistently demonstrate a bias for action with the technical aptitude to deliver customer value
• Collaborates with Agile coaches to maintain accountability and compliance with the SVB defined Agile delivery methodology
• Utilization of all necessary internal SVB toolsets to meet SVB framework, controls, compliance, and regulatory requirements including but not limited to leveraging Jira and Confluence to elicit and define business and technical epics, features, and stories
• Build great partnerships and relationships with globally distributed cross-functional partners (i.e., Business, Product, Technology, Design, Architecture, API, Dev Sec Ops, Legal, Compliance, et al.)
• Assure adherence to banking audit and regulatory practices in the completion of delivered assets to bank and customer users, ensuring full compliance with corporate standards

Once Here You Will:

• Assertive: Experience with working teams in adhering to Agile/Scrum concepts and principles and knowing when teams are not ready; must be able to be a voice of reason
• Attitude of empowerment: Must be able to guide team(s) to self-organization
• Attitude of transparency: Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to both business and IT and build trust amongst partners
• Collaborative: Ability to partner with others to achieve goals at various levels throughout the organization and lead others to do so by example
• Communicative and social: Must be able to communicate well with all levels of the organization from Scrum team members to release train leadership
• Conflict resolution: Must be able to facilitate discussion at the team level and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
• Continual improvement: Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
• Facilitative: Must be able to lead by example and demonstrate value-add principles to scrum team(s)

Brings a high-energy and passionate outlook to the job and can influence those around her/him

Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable & effective workplace

• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Customer Focus
• Leadership – Coaching/Mentoring
• Value Stream Mapping: Previous experience and knowledge with agile proficiency assessment areas (Flow, Quality, Product, Tech Excellence, and Agile Behaviors) to assist the team with continuous improvement
• Servant Leadership: Focuses on serving others first, listening and responding to people’s needs, involving others in decision-making, committing to people’s growth, and persuading them with empathy

What You’ll Bring:Education and Experience (required):

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7+ years previous experience in the Scrum Master role for technology delivery
• Previous experience coaching technology teams (engineers), Business and Shared services through the adoption of Agile practices
• Familiar with various software development methodologies (e.g., agile, waterfall) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), incl. processes, roles and responsibilities, entry and exit criteria, and key deliverables for each stage
• Previous experience with organizing and coaching the cloud migration teams
• Previous experience with Agile collaboration tools (e.g., Jira and Confluence) and high proficiency in MS Office applications such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Experience organizing and executing team training and mentoring
• Experience with distributed Agile teams and Scrum of Scrum
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)/ Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
• Past developer experience is highly desired (preferably in agile setup)
• Specific experience with Jira, Confluence, Kanban and similar tools and methodologies.
• An ideal candidate will also have technical experience working with various technology stacks and coaching development teams
• Certifications Preferred (not required)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

Strong knowledge of managing Jira backlogs, Kanban boards, JQL, dashboards, and integration with Confluence

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Silicon Valley Bank is an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to expanding its commitments and investments to create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive company culture and innovation ecosystem. We are strongly committed to the values and policy of equal employment opportunity across our employment practices.

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