Agile Scrum Master

We are looking for a passionate candidate who has strong communication skills, who can demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills, has a willingness to take ownership and accountability to execute and deliver on goals, and has a strong commitment to high quality standards.
The candidate hired into this role will be responsible for working with the squad to deliver on our business priorities, while embedding and reinforcing Agile practices and behaviors as part of the overall delivery effort. Working with the Product Owner, you will support the work of the squad by maintaining the backlog and facilitating Agile ceremonies like stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
You will monitor team performance through the squad's dashboard and help identify continuous improvement opportunities to help the team work better and smarter.

Required Skills:
Professional experience working on an Agile team; minimum 5 years
experience as a scrum master or SDM Role.
Conversant in Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile Frameworks.
Familiarity with software development or technology infrastructure.
Knowledge of industry-wide technology strategies.
Strong communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills; passionate about continuous learning to help the team evolve.
Has a deep understanding of change management and demonstrated ability to support wider organization changes.
Creates space for open discussions that can surface various viewpoints and can choose from multiple tools and techniques to reach a conclusion.
Is a servant leader who fosters self-organization and a culture of ownership and accountability on the team.
Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the squad.
Has a challenger mindset and passion to challenge status quo to find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas: encourages team to experiment.
Nice to have:
Technical domain knowledge with one major public cloud provider
Software development knowledge
Understanding of distributed systems and eventdriven architectures
Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, and distributed databases
Experience with automation and CI/CD tools and practices