Scrum Master II

Description

Job Summary:

As a Scrum Master, you'll be a crucial leader in our agile delivery teams, working to drive the incremental delivery of value to our customers. You'll be responsible for facilitating Scrum events, coaching team members, removing roadblocks, and promoting a safe and sustainable work environment. To succeed in this role, you'll need to have a deep understanding of agile principles and performance, excellent communication skills, and a passion for delivering high-quality products on time. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, product owners, and stakeholders to achieve our goals and continuously improve our understanding and application of lean and agile principles. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic company where you'll play a key role in guiding the development of our portfolio of products and services.

Lead and facilitate the agile development process and help teams continue to evolve their approach and reach their goals

Foster an environment where team members feel safe and appreciated and are working at a sustainable pace. Use the concepts of servant leadership in supporting their teams.

Collaborate with fellow Agilists to ensure teams embrace adoption of lean/agile principles and practices.

Support product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.

Teach, mentor, facilitate, and coach teams to continuously improve while using the Scrum framework and lean/agile principles

Facilitate agile/scrum events such as daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospectives, and PI Planning.

Facilitate the removal of roadblocks and obstacles for the team and insure transparency around risks, issues, and dependencies to relevant stakeholders and leadership.

Drive team iteration execution, communicate with leadership and stakeholders, and protect the team from scope creep.

Work with teams to conduct effective retrospectives with actionable improvement items.

Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA) to support estimates and execution.

Develop, maintain, and present high-level project and team metrics to peers, stakeholders, and leadership.

Manage other special projects as assigned.

Regular attendance is required.

This is not an all-inclusive list of job requirements and/or duties and may not contain all mental and physical capabilities necessary to perform the job at all times due to circumstances. Operational, safety and other needs may require the employee to perform any and all other duties as assigned. Employees are expected, and must be able to perform all such duties and tasks.

Qualifications:

BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience required

5 years project management experience with at least 3 years of experience managing projects in an agile environment required.

Passionate commitment to delivering products on time required

Excellent communication skills including listening, verbal, written, facilitation and presentation skills; demonstrated experience summarizing technical efforts and how they align to business outcomes required

Deep understanding of agile management practices and the use of metrics (sprint burndown/burnup, velocity, cycle time, etc.) to assess team outcomes, capabilities, productivity, and performance to achieve desired outcomes

Demonstrated expertise using and coaching others in agile methodology, principles, and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or other scaled agile frameworks required

Thrive in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment

Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development

Strong understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and Agile procedures to predict the delivery teams’ needs

Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and estimate epics/stories

Comfortable with presenting information to Executive level audiences

Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology

Proficient in Jira or other Project Management tools required

Self-motivated, organized

PMP, Scrum or other Agile certifications preferred

Must be able to travel occasionally as needed.

Must be able to comply with all company policies, rules, procedures and Code of Conduct

Must be able to interact well with others

Must be able to work independently, or in a team setting

Must be capable of working under tight time constraints in a high volume environment with multiple priorities

Responds well to questions; Ability to read, interpret and comply with written information and documents such as safety rules, operations / procedure manuals and maintenance instructions with a high comprehension and concentration level to include the ability to meet deadlines

Must pass a pre-employment drug screen, random drug and/or alcohol tests, and will be subject to a criminal history background check

Must be authorized to work in the United States

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee is frequently required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel or operate computers and other standard office equipment. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, lift, twist, turn and reach with hands and arms. The employee must be capable of lifting a minimum of 20 lbs., or more if required by the essential functions of the job.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment ranges from quiet to loud as required by the essential functions of the job.