Looking for a Scrum Master to guide the team to follow Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint and Program Increment.
Responsibilities:
Experience in Agile Scrum, preferably as a Scrum Master.
Working experience with Scrum teams.
Preferred experience in Product Development.
Coach the team to address any issues with the Agile/scrum process. Instill an "Inspect & Adapt" culture within the team.Facilitates and is accountable for leading the team through the agile ceremonies.
Manages team workload, and reaches out to their managers or Product Management when needed to negotiate time.
Manages dependencies across other Agile teams, regularly working with the other scrum masters and Program Manager/RTE.
Works closely with the Product Owner, Product Analysts, and Solutions Lead in ensuring sprints are healthy and work is effectively delivered by the team.
Owns the Jira project and handles the management of all issues in Jira for the team. Uses metrics in Jira, including burn up/down charts, release burndowns, and team.
Velocity to assess team health and identify improvement opportunities. Uses Jira to track team and team members' capacity based on tangible metrics.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
Minimum 4-6 years of previous Agile Coaching or Scrum Master experience, with deep knowledge of all Scrum roles and Scrum ceremonies.
Experience implementing Agile techniques in different cultures and environments with projects of varying size and complexity. Demonstrated understanding of Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, Test Driven Development, and Continuous Testing & Integration. Coaching new and existing teams in Scrum and/or Kanban/Scrumban best practices, so teams can meet sprint and release goals and mature in agile practices.
Knowledge of or experience in a scaled agile environment (preferred).
Hands on experience with some type of agile tooling: JIRA, AgileCraft, VersionOne, TFS.