Scrum Master

Role Description:

• Guides and coaches, the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
• Gets the team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
• Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
• Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational projects or product teams.
• Resolve team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.

Competencies : MasterCraft DevPlus - Team Edition - Scrum Management, Veeva Vault Platform

Essential Skills:

• 8 years of hands-on experience specifically as a Scrum Master, as well as experience working on an Agile Release Train
• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles.
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

Desirable Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to liaise with a variety of stakeholders.
• Must be self-motivated and pro-active.
• Need to show constant dynamism and be able to manage pressure.
• Attention to detail.
• Organizational skills with the capability of working towards tight deadlines.
• Able to work with demanding customer

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