What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Scrum Master position at Stellar Professionals?
Title: Certified Scrum Master
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Job Description
We are looking to fill a Long-term Contract role as Certified Scrum Master in Salem, OR
Mode of Interview: In person
Responsibilities
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Job Description
We are looking to fill a Long-term Contract role as Certified Scrum Master in Salem, OR
Mode of Interview: In person
Responsibilities
- The scrum master or Kanban flow master coaches and advises the teams as well as leadership on desired Scrum processes, procedures, values, and interactions as well as opportunities for continuous improvement.
- This role strives to enabling teams to become self-organizing, cross-functional, and accountable while assisting them to achieve their Sprint plan by facilitating Scrum/Kanban/SAFe events, removing impediments, and resolving issues outside of the team's control. Resource will lead the planning and execution of development and delivery of efforts for one or more products to a high standard. Resource must be coachable, and knows how to work with Product Owners, Scrum/flow Masters, Developers, and Stakeholders. This role must execute and follow the Agile transformation strategies laid out by the Agile Transformation Coach and transformation team, work as a good team player to enable understanding, learning and behaviors in an Agile way that drives customer and business value while creating a healthy Agile team culture.
- Certified Scrum Master
- Strong organization and analytical thinking skills with experience turning complex business needs into user scenarios, flows, and diagrams.
- Strong experience understanding and implementing Agile values, principles, and practices (i.e., Kanban, Scrum) based on Team's maturity.
- Strong hands on experience with tools like MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
- Experience working with stakeholders for backlog item prioritization, grooming, and understanding of epic/stories/tasks
- Experience with JIRA to create/enhance dashboards, monitor progress of sprint/work flow, and providing statuses in timely manner.
- Demonstrated experience working on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work.
- Experience with work breakdown and estimation, sprint planning, monitoring progress and removing impediments to deliver solutions for business needs.
- Strong experience using facilitation and communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong experience using risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills.
- Experience in gaining buy-in and support from stakeholders
- Experience managing, maintaining, and analyzing data to derive meaningful and actionable insights about the portfolio.
- Demonstrated experience using effective leadership, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
- Demonstrated experience working with planning just enough, just in time to START moving forward.
- Certified Scrum Master or Kanban certification
- Certified SPC or SAFe agilist in SAFe transformation
- Knowledge of DevOps practices
- Experience with setup, tracking, monitoring flow and reporting in Jira
- Experience with JIRA Align and Portfolio Planning
