Description

Responsibilities:

  • Provides coaching around Agile frameworks and best practices for feature/project delivery, utilizing traditional project management approaches when needed
  • Facilitates and/or supports Agile framework ceremonies for Agile teams
  • Teaches and enforces the values and principles of Agile, while promoting self-organization and constantly improving our standards of work
  • Identifies, tracks, and removes impediments for feature/project and team success
  • Arbitrates and resolves conflict within the team
  • Facilitates the creation of a well-defined product backlog
  • Ensures planning of go-live and deployment activities and facilitate their execution
  • Ensures that all team members understand and accept their roles and responsibilities
  • Assists with resource allocation and effective capacity planning for team to determine what team can take on in any given sprint
  • Monitors sprint velocity and works with team to determine how they can continue to improve on velocity and recognize additional efficiencies as they mature
  • Tracks and reports key project metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate
  • Manages feature delivery with respect to capital budgets
  • Manages relationships with all invested parties, including (but not limited to): Product, Engineering, Brands/Audiences, and/or other key stakeholders
  • Coordinates participation of different tech and business groups in requirements gathering, specifications, design, development and implementation of key projects
  • Shields the team from outside “noise” or distractions that prohibit them from being successful
  • Learns, understands, and actively uses project management & ticket tracking software to effectively manage the team’s backlog and sprint-committed items

Qualifications:

  • At least 3 years of Agile experience in high-performing Agile software development environment with dedicated teams
  • Scrum Master certification with deep understanding of all things Agile (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban and other methodologies)
  • Experience working in Desktop, Mobile Applications and OTT development teams in technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, iOS, and Android
  • Experience with Bitbucket, GitHub and Jenkins
  • Proficiency in tools: Jira, Confluence, Google Suite, Slack
  • Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate ideas in a fast-paced creative environment
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years working with Agile, Strong knowledge of Scrum, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and other Agile frameworks and software engineering practices, as well as traditional project management approaches
  • Ability to understand technologies applicable to assigned product or service area and facilitate resolution of technical needs as they arise
  • Comfortable leading business and technology in vetting technical options
  • Superb written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills (including with an executive audience)


 

Education

Bachelor's Degree