Scrum Master

Position Summary:

The Scrum Master is a servant leader who supports the Scrum team in its effort to deliver working software that increases GL Home’s ability to deliver value to the customer and business. The Scrum Master's knowledge and experience as an agile practitioner guides the team in making commitments to business stakeholders, and to each other, that raise the bar in terms of quality, effectiveness and value creation. The ideal candidate is a passionate change agent who influences both team members and business stakeholders to leverage change as a tool of improvement and competitive advantage. Although this is not a technical position, the Scrum Master should attain good technical acumen and have the ability to understand basic programming terms and discussions.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the Scrum framework with respect to ceremonies, artifacts and roles.
• Coach and teach agile values, principles and practices.
• Facilitate collaborative delivery of value to the company through working software.
• Serve the team by removing impediments and advocating for resources needed for the team's success.
• Lead the team in continuously improving quality, effectiveness and value creation.
• Facilitate short-term, mid-term and long-term feature planning.
• Conducting and facilitating all Scrum ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, grooming sessions, product reviews, sprint retrospective, etc) to ensure that team(s) are meeting sprint goals and milestones
• Ensuring timely delivery of software with a high level of quality in an agile environment.
• Identifying ways to increase effectiveness and efficiencies with an eye toward process improvement opportunities.
• Ensure value delivered by a program is tracked through metrics.
• Maintaining a clear and consistent channels of communication with the managers, teams and stakeholders to ensure timely and effective communication of statuses and any issues that may be impacting team’s delivery.
• Provides visibility into program health, progress, and impediments.
• Leading and demonstrating value-add principles to a team, while ensuring Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to.
• Promoting and providing environment for feedback, team communication and innovation
• Experience working with onsite/offshore teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, relationship management, client facing, team-building, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Leadership and/or Project Lead experience is a must.
• Experience with business process flows and UX concepts.
• Assist in establishing standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation and process improvements.
• The incumbent is expected to need little or no direct guidance or supervision on a day-to-day basis.

Experience and Skills:

Education & Experience:

• 3-5 years of experience in a technical environment, with at least 3 years serving in the Scrum Master role.
• Ability to facilitate meetings and exercises at all levels of the organization, including senior leadership.
• Ability to lead the team in discovering their own solutions to problems and challenges they face.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Skills & Abilities:

• Experience applying other Agile methods, such as XP, Kanban, etc.
• Experience working on teams that used Agile technical practices such as pair programming, test-driven development, continuous integration, etc.
• Experience leading multiple Scrum teams at once.
• Experience developing software.
• Scrum Master certification.

From: G L Homes of Florida Corporation