Scrum Master - W2

Scrum Master

Travel: Less than 5 %

Responsibilities:

• Possess a working level understanding of Agile Scrum and Kanban principles and practices and understands the unique opportunities and challenges associated with organizing, facilitating, and continuously aligning the scrum team with the guiding business strategy.
• Resolve team level impediments, manage risk, and drive continuous improvement throughout the delivery teams and lifecycle.
• Facilitate team level agile processes and release train execution around requirements definition, scope, and delivery.

Essential Functions:

• Arrange and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, story grooming, and demo/retro. Ensure quick inspection and proper use of agile process. 20%
• Create, modify, publish and leverage standardized Agile Metrics to facilitate continuous improvement on the Scrum Team. 10%
• Work with multiple in-house and external Scrum teams that are enterprise-wide to remove impediments and manage dependencies. 15%
• Facilitates agile scrum team execution and feature completion tracking for 2 scrum teams. 20%
• Works with product management, product owners, and business owners to help assure execution alignment for scrum teams. 20%
• Helps manage risk and dependencies. 10%
• Other duties as assigned.5%

Required Skills/Experience:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Advanced computer skills and proficiency in MS Office Suite
• Proven experience inmanaging multiple Scrum teams
• 3-5 years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or appropriate combination of education and experience in essential duties and responsibilities.
• Effective manager, collaborator, and servant leader
• 3-5 years of experience leading technical and non-technical teams in an Agile environment

Preferred:

• Intermediate understanding of ITIL Framework
• Experience working with Jira and Confluence
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM )