Description

Job Description:
The Sr. Scrum Master will be responsible for an agile team, and complex projects. The responsibilities will include:

  • Agile based software development
  • Agile based module development
  • Cross functional communication
  • Applying software development practices from requirements through delivery
  • Teaching and coaching team members and product owners on applicable processes and tools for effective agile adoption.


Skills/Experience:

  • Ensures the Scrum team is practicing the core SAFe agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, and team accountability to achieve Sprint goals and lead the team towards Agile maturity
  • Implements program level transparency, metrics, and other data that instills accountability measures within team and working with the Release Train Engineer
  • Establishes themselves as a welcomed and trusted advisor on agile transformation to managers, scrum masters, product owners, developers and other stakeholders
  • Helps to identify and attack organizational impediments which limits team productivity, quality, and ability to implement continuous improvement
  • Supports Product Owners with backlog maintenance, backlog prioritization, and user story refinement process to deliver highest business value
  • Facilitates Sprint planning, daily scrum, dependency reviews, demos to stakeholders, and retrospectives
  • Uses Scrum of Scrums (SOS) forum and coordinates with other teams to manage cross-team dependencies
  • Facilitates frequent retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements
  • This list is not all-inclusive and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned


Qualifications:

  • 4+ w/Bachelors degree
  • A-CSM or SAFe SM or PSM-I
  • Expert knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution
  • Strong organizational skills to increase productivity and efficiency while managing multiple projects
  • Understands software application development process steps (from design to delivery)
  • Advanced understanding of various agile methodologies; SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP
  • Ability to develop and use historical data to help team learn and improve their process and practices
  • Understands the role and function of Product ownership in an agile team
  • Has skills and experience in teaching new Agile/Scrum concepts to the team
  • Seeks the latest trends in process improvement
  • Mastery of Lean Agile Leadership
  • Awareness of CI-CD and DevOps concepts and how it impacts software development and delivery
  • Be an Agile champion and guide one or more teams in adoption of Agile/Scrum/SAFe principles
  • Advanced knowledge of, Jira, Confluence, and Jira Align, MS-Office Applications


 

Education

Bachelor's degree