Key skills
Source ControlAgileScrumKanbanLeadershipCommunicationTime ManagementCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Serves as Scrum Master for 3
- 4 Agile teams.
- Establishes and upholds Agile values and principles including collaboration, fostering a culture of openness, team self-organization, continuous improvement and flexibility to adapt to emerging business needs.
- Coaches teams on the basics of Scrum and/or Kanban.
- Coaches IT and Business Leadership on Agile principles to facilitate change.
- Proposes, champions, and empowers experimentation for agile teams in their development goals.
- Anticipates issues that may develop and organizes team resources to evaluate and resolve.
- Facilitates Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives.
- Establishes Agile backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity and task definitions.
- Focuses teams to deliver value quickly through iterations.
- Coordinates across other Agile and traditional teams for complex projects.
- Escalates and/or resolves impediments to help your team ship code on regular intervals.
- Tracks and communicates team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Updates Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product and Sprint Backlogs in order to measure & monitor against the team’s commitments.
- Facilitates discussions and manages conflict resolution effectively.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned or apparent.
Requirements
- Minimum of two years of experience as a Scrum Master.
- Proven successful experience in converting development teams to agile processes.
- Demonstration of knowledge of various agile techniques – Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.
- Proven successful experience in leading and driving complex, time critical software development projects.
- Experience with software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Strong time management and organizational skills.
- Scrum Master certification.
- Strong understanding of Scrum techniques and its associated artifacts, including User Stories, Backlog Refinement, Definition of Done, etc.
- Minimum of 3 years of combined technology development experience in a Scrum Master, Project Manager, or Developer role.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.
- Health care and dependent care spending accounts.
- Short
- and long-term disability.
- Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).
- Employee discount programs.
- Retirement plan with a generous company match.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Paid Time Off (PTO)