What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master/Kanban Master position at Infojini Inc?
Job Description (Remote):
Position: Sr. Principal Kanban Master/Team Coach
Location: Washington, DC
Duration: 12 Months
Note: 2 days onsite quarterly for PI Planning.
SUMMARY OF DUTIES
The SAFe Kanban Master/Team Coach (KM/TC) is a servant leader and coach. The ideal candidate will work at the team level to ensure the successful implementation of lean-agile values, principles, and team practices while fostering a culture of kaizen, continuous improvement, and flow within a SAFe 6 Agile Release Train (ART).
KANBAN KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
- Highly experienced with the practices and principles of Kanban and able to explain the differences between Kanban, Scrum, and SAFe.
- Facilitate the adoption and effective use of Kanban principles, practices, and techniques at the team level.
- Facilitate effective SAFe Kanban team events, including stand-ups, backlog refinement/ queue replenishment, and kaizen/retrospectives focused on flow improvement
- Good knowledge of Kanban techniques and SAFe 6 practices including, but not limited to definition of done, user story refinement, automated testing, backlog refinement and replenishment, PI Planning,
- Collaborate with team members, Release Train Engineer, product owner, and product manager to establish and maintain Kanban boards, Work In Progress (WIP) limits, pull policies/agreements, and classes of service.
- Coach bottleneck identification and flow efficiency strategies.
- Educate team members on key Kanban metrics (e.g., cycle time, lead time, throughput, CFD) and use them to drive data-informed decision-making
- SAFe 6 KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
- Participate in the ART Events with the team, ART Syncs, PO Syns, Coaching Syncs, Inspect, and Adapt helping the team identify kaizen opportunities across the team/ART
- Foster alignment between team-level Kanban practices and PI-level objectives within
- Act as a change agent to promote SAFe 6 Lean-Agile principles and values, ensuring a focus on delivering customer value.
- Guide the team in identifying and addressing bottlenecks, dependencies, and risks. Support the team in building a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Collaborate with PO, RTEs, PMs, and other stakeholders to share SAFe 6 and Kanban best practices and remove team systemic impediments.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Typically, a minimum of 8 years as an agile Kanban team and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of related work experience and schooling instead of a degree; Advanced degree and 5 years related work experience.
- Proven experience as a team Kanban Coach in a SAFe 6 environment
- Demonstrated understanding of Kanban, Scrum, agile methodologies, and SAFe
- Ability to prioritize and make data-driven decisions
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Experience with Jira Software, Confluence, LucidCharts, Jira Align, Agility Health
- MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Valid Active Certification in Kanban (e.g., KSD, TKP or equivalent)
- Valid/Active SAFe Scrum Master (SSM 6)
- Strong analytical skills and experience in Kanban and data-driven coaching
- Background in coaching teams transitioning from Scrum to Kanban
