What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager Scrum Master position at ConnectedX Inc.?
Who we’re looking for:We are looking for a passionate and highly motivated Scrum Master for a Fortune 100 client. This is a long term role in Plano, TX
Position: Scrum Master
Location: Plano, TX
Duration: Long-Term
What you will bring:
- Should be smart and have strong demonstrating skills.
- Proven track record at facilitating, coaching, and mentoring teams and leaders towards rapidly delivering high impact, high quality software in a sustainable fashion.
- Deep expertise in helping teams build and develop trust, safety, and effective communication.
- Experience and expertise in multiple agile approaches (Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, Lean, etc), and ability and flexibility to adapt approach to fit team and product environment.
- Relevant practitioner level certifications (PSMII/CSP) are preferred.
- Experience with full SW development life cycle and advocating for modern agile software development and organizational practices.
- Committed to the development of all team members and continuous development of capability within the department.
- Committed to continuous learning and able to demonstrate a pattern of personal development in agility.
- Not afraid to raise issues and inspire change while being comfortable dealing with situations of conflict, ambiguity, and uncertainty.
- Technical experience developing software, portfolio level planning, and/or business experience is preferred.
- Experience with Jira and scaling Jira across multiple teams is a plus.
What you will do:
- Help grow a collaborative and continuously improving engineering culture.
- Teach and serve Agile Values and Principles as an example to the team of Scrum.
- Coach and give feedback to individuals (including senior leadership) and teams.
- As a Scrum Master, facilitate Scrum Events when requested by the team.
- Deliver effective conflict resolution between individuals and teams.
- Be an assertive but friendly and communicative person with first class interpersonal skills.
- Be an expert in estimation and planning techniques and be able to explain and teach release planning in an empirical environment.
- Advocate for modern agile software development and organizational practices, such as XP, CI/CD, Devops, TDD, etc.
- Have excellent visualization skills and be able to explain and create visual radiators.
- Help individuals, teams, and programs to clarify goals and actions to achieve them.
- Be a master of techniques to improve the efficiency of the development team.
- Deliver effective methods and practices for managing and resolving impediments.
- Coach and support a Product Owner in effective techniques for backlog creation, management, and refinement.
- Demonstrate effective techniques for managing team interruptions, and for protecting the team in a sprint.
- Work beyond team boundaries to improve efficiencies, flow of work, and value delivered.
- Be able to explain the differences between various Scrum Scaling frameworks and approaches.
- Provide scaling expertise to align multiple agile teams, collaborate and facilitate planning with large groups, coach Chief Product Owners on managing scaled product backlog of epics and features, and facilitate decision making with Product Owners, and Principal Architects.
- Create and maintain team happiness, and demonstrate effective techniques for building happy teams.
- Demonstrated deep system level thinking and proven ability to impact whole program dynamics.
- Be a genuine self-starter needing no prompting to get going, and be able to observe and then take action to improve the team delivery
