Infrastructure Development – Scrum Master

As a Scrum Master you will act as a servant leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication to management and to the team. Our Scrum Masters are open, approachable, collaborative and enjoy working with passionate people. They are proactive in solving problems to help their team(s) succeed. The Scrum Master drives Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. They embrace agility as a practice. The Scrum Master is responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals and has a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes.

Our culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem solving is essential to our success. We bring people together with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We support teamwork, thinking big and taking risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on relevant projects, while building an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. We are excited to see what you will bring to our team.

• Experience in an large scale development and operations environment.
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc).
• Experience as a Scrum Master for at least two years working with a development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
• Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, database, unix/linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, information retrieval, networking, large scale software development, security software development.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Product owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information.
• Facilitate groups of 30 or more, and coach multiple teams across the product.
• Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts.
• Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvements events.
• Communicate organizational impediments to leadership; clear impediments for the team.
• Embrace the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instill the same in the team(s) you coach.
• Coach product owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog including empirical planning.
• Appreciate the depths of Lean and Agile practices and principles and help teams appreciate them.
• Teach systems thinking and servant leadership.
• Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team.

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience.
• Expertise with Agile and Scrum Frameworks and their application in Product. Development and delivery organization.
• Ability to coach and mentor.
• Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels.
• Sound understanding of Scaling framework such as LeSS and various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban, XP.
• Able to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the team(s). Possess an executive presence and ability to coach multiple teams across the product
• Possess an executive presence and ability to coach multiple teams across the product
• Knowledge of industry wide technology strategies.
• Ability to leverage capabilities across the firm to solve local problems.