Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams.
Develop and provide brown bags and training to JIRA users and management on best practices and applications for the agile process along with related reporting and summarizing activities in JIRA.

6 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 4 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 10 years relevant experience.
Client Education & Experience Requirements: Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team; 4 years of additional experience is required in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree.
Must have at least 3 years’ experience working in JIRA to manage ceremonies, capture sprint activities, record epics, stories, tasks, and other team activities, and develop reporting for leadership and other stakeholders.
Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques.
Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel.
Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles.
Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.
Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques.
Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams.

Scrum Master (Project Management Analyst 3) - 27459

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