Job Title: Scrum Master
Full-time
Job Description:
- Simultaneously leading multiple teams to deliver value added features through several agile methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
- Leads and facilitates critical team level agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint demos, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
- Participates and prepares for train level agile ceremonies including program increment planning, system demos, and inspect & adapt workshops
- Supports the teams estimating efforts. Guides them in establishing normalized estimating approach
- Identifies risks and blockers and actively works to remove them from the path of the team
- Help Team members communicate, coordinate and cooperate to ensure that the teams sprint and program increment goals are met
- Balances scrum process enforcement with collaboration and adapts the agile process framework to the realities of the team culture and environment. Overly ridged approaches will fail
- Coordinates with other Scrum Masters to synchronize cross team dependencies
- Embodies Lean-Aglie leadership behaviors by actively, and continually seeks out opportunities for and drives toward velocity improvements
- Leverages the Rally tool as the means to track work and status success, issues, risks and dependencies
- Creates a positive team atmosphere where communication, collaboration, and team work defines the culture
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Project Management or other related field or equivalent work experience
- 2 years of direct experience leading agile teams as a scrum master
- 5-8 years of experience in information technology
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills with the ability to execute with limited information and ambiguity
- Constant focus on what is possible and helping others to see the opportunity in the midst of challenge
- Strong communications skills. Ability to communicate across a diverse set of resources
- Comfort delivering difficult messages in a fact based approach
- Demonstrated experience facilitating agile delivery with globally distributed virtual teams
- Demonstrated ability to navigate a highly-matrixed organization effectively
- Moderate to Advanced Microsoft Office suite skill level
- Required Skills:
- Advanced programming (functional) 2-5 years of experience
- NoSQL databases 2-5 years of experience
- Big data - data streams and data lakes 2-5 years of experience
- Scalable languages such as Scala, Python and R 2-5 years of experience
- Relative certifications: SAFe Agilist (SA) Certification, SAFe Practitioner (SP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and/or Project Management Professional (PMP)
- 5+ years of direct experience leading agile teams as a scrum master, or release train engineer
- Influencing skills (sound business and technical acumen as well as skilled at achieving buy-in or delivery strategies)
- Working knowledge of Rally software
- Working knowledge of Clarity PPM
- Adept at negotiating; able to resolve conflict and adapt to different approaches using a variety of tactics
- Ability to be highly effective in a rapidly-changing business and technology environment
- Desired Skills:
- Test Automation tools 2 years
- Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployments (CD) 2 years
- Minimum Education Required: Bachelors Degree
Apply online at https://goo.gl/RsN2cD.
Date Posted: 10/30/17