Scrum Master
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Job Summary: Works as a servant leader and coach to enable teams to self-organize self-manage and deliver on their goals by following Lean-Agile practices. Coaches the organization in maturing the SAFe/Agile practices at both the team and enterprise level.
This SM will be capable of leading software development and product teams as well as experience with Kanban. This person will need to be an excellent communicator above all else.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
1. Performs as a Scrum Master for 2-4 more teams.
2. Performs assessments at the team or train level.
3. Leads develops or improves internal training courses.
4. Enables cross communication between agile teams by participating in organizing and facilitating the coach sync meetings.
5. Maintains and creates relevant metrics to gauge team progress.
6. Contributes to writing SM CoP yearly objectives.
7. Demonstrates mastery of servant leadership (Facilitation Coaching Continuous Improvement).
8. Focuses on improving team dynamics and performance. Helps the team manage interpersonal conflicts challenges and opportunities for growth. Escalates problems to management where necessary but only after internal team processes have failed to resolve the issue; helps individuals and teams through personnel changes.
9. Facilitates the scrum ceremonies removes impediments acts as a buffer for the team from all outside distractions and ensures that scrum rules are followed. Assists the team in staying accountable to their commitments consistently.
10. Prepares the team(s) for PI Planning events by calculating capacity and coaching best practices for WSJF (weighted shortest job first).
Minimum Qualifications:
Position requires a bachelors degree in computer science or information systems and five years of information technology experience with five years work experience leading projects/developing or leading teams three of those years must have been as a Scrum Master. SP SSM/CSM SPC and SASM certification preferred.
Position requires an understanding of common Agile practices service-oriented environments and iterative development practices; knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: ATDD TDD Continuous Integration Continuous Testing Pairing and Automated Testing preferred; ability to manage large and complex projects; ability to help teams write user stories/epics identify dependencies and design optimal solutions; ability to establish immediate credibility with business stakeholders build consensus and achieve goals through influence; excellent interpersonal/communication skills; prior hands-on development experience preferred; published agile content through various channels (blogs articles LinkedIn conferences etc.) preferred.
Employment Type
Contract
