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Job Summary
As a Scrum Master, you will be part of a highly collaborative, cross-functional Scrum team within Technology area. You'll advise and lead the team on Scaled Agile Framework values, principles and Scrum framework to ensure that the team is fully functional, productive, and focused on the Program Increment Objectives. As a Scrum Master II, you will work directly on a large scaled scrum team(up to 10 technology and business associates) to coach and facilitate the continuous improvement of the team. The ability to maintain the principles of a Scaled Agile Framework aligning with the business priorities requires systems thinking and influence to drive to results within the epics. Working with the product owner, you will support the work of the team by facilitating agile events and ceremonies, such as, daily stand ups, interaction planning and retrospectives. You will work closely with the Release Train Engineer, and program team to coordinate delivery work and services toward the Program Increment Objectives delivering on business value. Presenting to senior leadership through program increment events is a critical expectation of this role. You will participate in the Agile Release Train events, such as Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Inspect and Adapt workshop, as required by the program.
Job Description
Work closely with Product Management, Development, QA and other stakeholders on planning and delivering high quality software using agile/scrum framework
Facilitate scrum ceremonies for one or more scrum teams including the daily standup, sprint planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives
Understand the product and technology well enough to support the project, identify and communicate risks, and facilitate issue resolution
Serve as Agile champion and coach teams and stakeholders on agile principles and the agile mindset and drive home the value of agile/scrum
Leverage critical thinking skills and coach to them through scrum teams to ensure consistency.
Drive continuous improvement and efficiency through consistent communication between team and program level along with critical stakeholders
Ensure the team has clear understanding of the quality of software they are developing and is constantly working to improve that quality. Develop and coach the team
to drive to enhanced quality.
Provide and track agile metrics as it relates to scrum team predictability and productivity with an eye towards continuous improvement
Participate in scrum of scrum ceremonies to communicate and mitigate risk, escalate blockers, and drive progress on cross-team dependencies
Identifying team improvement opportunities and looking externally for best practices to support continuous improvement
Driving a collaborative and supportive team culture through team building and engagement practices
Ability to present to senior leadership at PI sessions regarding challenges and solutions identified by the scrum teams.
Requirements
EDUCATION: (Minimum education required)
Bachelors' degree required
SCRUM certification required
PMP preferred
EXPERIENCE: (Years of experience)
5+ years Agile/ Program management experience in software development using Scrum
3+ years as Scrum Master
Experience with SAFe framework
Experience with Kanban a plus
Experience driving/leading scaled Agile transformation efforts a plus
Experience with Agile ALM tools like JIRA, Rally, etc.
