Senior Scrum Master

Overview

As a key member of the Agile team, the Scrum Master / Sr. Scrum Master serves as a coach, mentor, and facilitator of Agile practices. This role involves facilitating the scrum processes, protecting the team from interference, and helping remove impediments to achieve sprint goals and PI objectives. The Scrum Master fosters an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous process flow, and relentless improvement.

• Plans, leads, organizes, and coaches one or more cross-functional teams on implementing and improving Agile practices.
• Leads the coordination and facilitation of sprint planning, task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Acts as a primary communication hub between program and product management teams and the application development team to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time.
• Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution by encouraging transparency and building trust among team members.
• Works with Product Owners and Managers to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution.
• Partners with program and release managers in production deployment activities.
• Leads the development, analysis, tracking, and communication of team's agile adoption and progress metrics, including velocity, burn-down, cycle time, and other quality metrics.
• Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team.
• Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner, and other scrum teams.
• Manages and resolves dependencies across scrum teams.
• Drives cross-functional projects of medium to complex projects.
• Coaches the agile team on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition.
• Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities.
• Works with other Scrum Masters in coordinating scrum-of-scrum activities across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field.
• 5 years of IT work experience and 1 year of scrum execution in an IT or software development setting.
• Knowledge of multiple agile development methodologies and frameworks.
• Understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
• Experience in leading teams.
• PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe, or equivalent certification preferred.
• Experience using agile tools, including Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence.
• Experience with Scrum and Scaled Agile frameworks.

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