What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master (Level 2) position at Brooksource?
One of our top retail clients is seeking an experienced servant leader and coach for a cross-functional agile team operating in complex and cross functional work across the Security, Data and Networking domain areas related to transformation to the Cloud.
Top Skills –
- Self-starter
- Clear and effective communication
- Inspiring and guiding the team, while also being a servant leader who supports and empowers team members
- Ability to identify issues and find creative solutions for process improvements within the team
- Efficient time management
- Great facilitation skills
Contract Type: 6-12 month Contract-to-Hire
Location: This position is open to remote candidates but candidates in Cincinnati are preferred. Must be in EST timezone.
Travel: N/A
The Scrum Master guides and facilitates a Scrum &/or Kanban team involved in a large fast-paced program implementing complex technology for business-oriented solutions, through effective application of the agile based SDLC (Software Delivery Life Cycle) and associated ceremonies, ensuring the agreed upon agile practice is being followed. Removing impediments and fostering a high performing team with a focus on continuous improvement resulting in quality and timeliness delivery.
- Scrum master experience in a complex large-scale enterprise
- Experience in an agile environment in other roles; such as quality assurance, development, product owner, or as an agile coach
- Proven knowledge and experience with agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
- Demonstrated leadership ability to coach and mentor the team to reach their highest potential. Excellent team player and team builder
- Ability to work with all levels of the organization
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work collaboratively with diverse personality types
- Ability to understand technical issues at a high level and communicate agile methodologies within the organization
- Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
- Strong ability to manage multiple agile teams and ensure a proper balance between PMO (Project Management office, business and technology teams and management)
- Must be self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex problems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail
Key Responsibilities
- Lead an Agile team to deliver business outcomes and drive Agile maturity within their team
- Facilitate Agile events, team organization, and ceremonies with one or more teams of varying complexity
- Facilitate the Agile Delivery team to relentlessly improve through intentional Lean and data driven inspect and adapt cycles (retrospectives)
- Promote and demonstrate core agile principles of collaboration, team accountability and transparency
- Leverage the metrics reports for their team and partner with the team to develop and implement the improvement strategies
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product to understand the product and/or technical roadmap(s) in order to deliver capabilities using an iterative approach
- Negotiate dependencies with teams by following dependency management leading practices
- Embrace and promote a quality mind-set by supporting and partnering with QA team members on QA leading practices and standards
- Identify and remove any impediments/distractions that interfere with the team's ability to deliver against their commitments
- Support and promote the Agile team's OKRs and ensure the work is accurately entered, linked and tracked in the tool (i.e. JIRA)
- Facilitate and enable an environment of collaboration and creativity, and empower the team to self-manage around achieving their commitments
- Support and empower the team to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
- Protect the Agile team from disruptive work, and promote our leading practices and ensure changes are evaluated and intentional
- Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
