Agile Scrum Master

Description:

• The Scrum Master role is responsible for monitoring the scrum process, routines, processes, and communications for the team.
• This individual is a servant leader that works to increase team efficiency, removes impediments, coaches the team, and manages changes that will ensure quality and timely execution, while ensuring that train guidelines are upheld.
   

Primary Skill

• Agile tools (Jira)

Secondary Skill

• Agile Coach
   

Required Skills

• Coaching the team in the lean-agile process and helping the team apply the principles
• Coordinating and facilitating the team process and routines
• Promotes quality practices
• Acts as the voice of the team and protects the team from distractions to their commitments
• Manages and resolves impediments at the team level, escalating when needed
• Reports team plans, results, and issues impeding commitments to the Release Train/Program
• Reports performance and drives continuous improvement for the team
• Support Performance Test Execution
• Successfully manage expectations and do everything possible to support the Performance, Capacity of the team in delighting customers
• Ensure ART team metrics and test results are transparent and used to enable data driven decisions
• Guide the team on how to apply Agile Principles and utilize Agile/Scrum practices
• Manage and help resolve impediments, escalating issues beyond the teams control
• Facilitate cross functional discussions, enable decision making and navigate conflict resolution
• Promoting continuous improvement and ensuring retrospective items land in the backlog and have a clear ownership
• Facilitate team ceremonies / events, including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Reviews and Retrospectives
• Assess Agile / Scrum maturity and ensure that the team works at a sustainable pace
• Supporting the Product Owner on Grooming/Refinement sessions and ensuring a healthy backlog
• Establish an environment of trust and transparency and lead by example
• May support up to 2 teams concurrently (based on maturity)
   

Desired Skills 
Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Excellent communication skills
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Education and experience in the Scrum Master role and can attentively apply Agile / Scrum principles, practices, and theory in everything we do
• Experience working within SAFe Solutions Train environment
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence reporting and quality structures
• Pragmatic ability to apply servant leadership (putting the team before self)
• Robust facilitation skills and situational awareness
• Ability to drive continuous improvement through transparency and learning
• Exhibits a continuous learner mindset and is comfortable when faced with complex problems
• Understanding of Performance Testing and Capacity Management context for overall software development lifecycle
• Strong navigation skills and organizational awareness