Sr. Scrum Master

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