Scrum Master 292

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The Scrum Master will act as an effective change agent promoting agile best practices to teams focusing on alignment with business relentless improvement and delivering value. This individual will support enterprise agile adoption and maturity across the enterprise by observing evaluating and implementing changes to solve organizational and cultural impediments to improve the agile transformation of a program or project.

Responsibilities:

• Be a point of contact for helping others be aware and understand agile best practices.

• Be a servant leader to the scrum team.

• Addressing any concerns

• Clearing any blockers

• Facilitate agile meetings/ceremonies for teams. Ensuring purposes are met effectively and efficiently.

• Ensure team is always aligned with product/sprint goals.

• Leverage Azure Boards or another workflow tool ensuring team and stakeholders are getting proper value from the tool and visibility into the work coming into the team.

• Assist in implementing training programs.

• Partner with Lead Scrum Masters and RTE (if applicable) in planning efforts for the portfolio.

• Coach agile best practices to scrum team. Continuously ensure agile best practices are being followed.

• Support enterprise agile adoption and maturity across the enterprise by observing evaluating and implementing changes to solve organizational and cultural impediments to improve the agile transformation of a program or project.

• Collaborate with team and leadership to re-enforce and teach agile best practice.

• Always driving team to improve culture processes and delivery.

• Communicate changes intended goals timelines and results

• Implementing training programs.

• Monitor improvement in maturity quality predictability and delivery as adoption of agile practices increases to ensure coaching meets the required outcomes.

• Be servant leader for scrum teams that are just starting their agile journey assess meet the team where they are and setup plans to move the team forward.

Education:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

• One or more agile certifications preferred (e.g. CSM CSPO CSP PSM PSPO SAFe).

Technical/Soft Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Energetic and skilled at engaging with different team members with different personalities.

• Ability to learn quickly and teach others by showing what worked and what did not work.

• Strong Microsoft Office skills.

• Ability to prepare presentations including charts graphics and tables speaker notes & handouts etc.

• Ability to communicate both verbally and written are essential to work closely with team members and managers and effectively manage problems as they occur.

• Effective organization and time management skills.

• Strong attention to detail.

Experience:

• Must have 5 years of active scrum master experience (prefer 8 years)

• Must have Scrum Master experience not just Agile experience (ex. not a Product Owner)

• Must have experience working in a complex environment as we have fast pace of change challenging stakeholders and an environment that is not fully matured into a SAFe Agile framework.

• Must have strong communication skills and can speak to specific examples of navigating or hands on experience with situations.

• Experience with Azure DevOps management tool as we need someone that can build dashboards run reports etc. is strongly preferred.

• SAFe Agile or other Scrum Master Certification is preferred.

• Hybrid experience (Project Manager/Scrum Master) experience is a plus.

• Experience working in an accounting or banking industry is a plus.

• Experience facilitating Scaled Agile ceremonies such as PI Planning Sprint Demos Retrospectives and ART Sync/PI Sync is a plus

• Experience with PI level metrics and reporting to drive improvements is a plus

• SAFe Coaching experience to drive process improvements trainings etc. is a plus

• Experience as a traditional project manager or certification is a nice to have but not required.

Leadership Skills:

• Ability to work within multiple levels of the firm.

• Ability to deal with a variety of personalities.

• Ability to influence and negotiate with a diverse population.

• Ability to support affect and implement change.

At RSM we offer a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our offer flexibility in your schedule empowering you to balance lifes demands while also maintaining your ability to serve more about our total rewards at applicants will receive consideration for employment as RSM does not tolerate discrimination and/or harassment based on race; color; creed; sincerely held religious beliefs practices or observances; sex (including pregnancy or disabilities related to nursing); gender; sexual orientation; HIV Status; national origin; ancestry; familial or marital status; age; physical or mental disability; citizenship; political affiliation; medical condition (including family and medical leave); domestic violence victim status; past current or prospective service in the US uniformed service; US Military/Veteran status; pre-disposing genetic characteristics or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state or local law.

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