Senior Scrum Master

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Company: IDEXX
Location: Westbrook, ME 04092

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Job Description:

IDEXX Laboratories has an opening for a Scrum Master within R&D Instrument Software. This role offers the opportunity to work on visible projects as part of a collaborative team. The ideal candidate will facilitate the Scrum framework across multiple teams and deliverables in an Agile development environment. This individual will be part of an empowered, self-organizing, and self-accountable team that is responsible for delivery of committed scope, quality, and predictability outcomes with each sprint.


Job Duties include, but not limited to:

  • Provide ongoing Scrum coaching to the team, business partners, and other stakeholders as required
  • Facilitate all Scrum and Agile rituals, including:

    • User Story Grooming/Refinement
    • Sprint Planning
    • Daily Scrum
    • Sprint Review
    • Sprint Retrospective
  • Establish team working agreements, help resolve impediments, facilitate productivity, and increase the probability of success in each sprint
  • Establish sustainable pace – plan team capacity and sprint velocity targets
  • Foster a highly collaborative and communicative environment
  • Provide ongoing Scrum coaching to the team and to business partners and other stakeholders as required
  • Establish and maintain highly effective partnerships with Product Owners and Development Managers
  • Work closely with Product Owners to develop support Release Planning
  • Ensure follow through on Retrospective action items
  • Facilitate maximum project visibility and transparency for the team and stakeholders
  • Monitor Sprint burn down/burn up and facilitate course correction where required


What do you need to succeed?

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who will champion and facilitate three critical pillars of process control: Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation.

The ability to function as a coach for other teams and strong teamwork and interpersonal skills at all management levels are essential.

The successful candidate will also have a firm understanding of:

  • the value of team commitments to delivery and related metrics
  • the value of incremental delivery
  • user story construction, user story estimation, sprint health indicators (burn-down/burn-up), velocity, and continuous improvement


Qualifications:

  • Two years of experience working as a Scrum Master in a Scrum team environment
  • Five years of experience with a software development team
  • Significant facilitation experience
  • Demonstrated expertise in the Scrum Framework and Agile Methodology, including strong working knowledge of Scrum Values, Roles, Rituals, and Artifacts, as well as Agile Principles and Values
  • Strong ability to communicate clearly and articulate project conditions (verbal & written)
  • Ability to present and explain project information in a way that establishes rapport, optimizes transparency, and gains understanding
  • Expertise in setting and managing stakeholder expectations
  • Ability to coach and influence multi-disciplined and cross-functional teams
  • Ability to maintain technical proficiency in current Agile Lifecycle Management software


Preferred:

  • Experience with Agile Lifecycle Management software
  • CSM Scrum Master certification preferred


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