Scrum Master

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Company: ITC InfoTech
Location: New York, NY

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Salary

$130,000 – $150,000 a year

Job Type
Full-time
Benefits
Pulled from the full job description
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement plan
  • Paid time off
  • Relocation assistance
Qualifications
  • Experience:

    • Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe, LESS), 3 years (Required)

    • Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, CI, etc., 5 years (Preferred)

    • Scrum Master, 5 years (Required)

    • Full Job Description

    Required

    • 5 years’ experience as a Scrum Master for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
    • Prior experience building and testing software or implementing DevOps
    • 3 years’ experience with scaled Agile (SAFe, LESS) in a hands-on leadership role (e.g., Release Train Engineer, Agile Program Manager)
    • Knowledge of other approaches in the Agile space: Kanban, Lean, etc.
    • Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, etc.
    • Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency. * * Experience applying a wide variety of 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.)

    Preferred Skills

    • Leadership role in a large-scale Agile transformation
    • Experience in Scrum Master and scaled Agile or transformation roles in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
    • Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum and Agile, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc. * Active participant in the Agile community.

    Responsibilities

    • Facilitating Scrum events and other ad-hoc meetings for teams. Facilitating multi-team events like Big Room Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and story mapping.
    • Assisting Product Owners and teams in story writing, backlog maintenance and prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs.
    • Servings as teams’ or programs’ information radiator, representing the team or program to senior management, stakeholders and sponsors.
    • Effectively using metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making at the team or program level.
    • Facilitating estimation and planning at the team or program level. Assisting in creating useful, reliable and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases.
    • Coaching developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles. * Coaching more junior Scrum Masters.
    • Helping teams and individuals clarify goals, and actions to achieve them. * Shielding the team from outside distractions, context switching and interferences.
    • Tracking and removing impediments. * Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching to higher levels of maturity
    • Building a safe environment with an emphasis on collaboration and problem solving * Participating in Agile Communities of Practice

    Work Location:

    • One location

    Benefits:

    • Health insurance
    • Dental insurance
    • Vision insurance
    • Retirement plan
    • Paid time off
    • Relocation assistance

    Visa Sponsorship Potentially Available:

    • Yes: H-1B work authorization
    • Yes: Immigrant visa sponsorship (e.g., green card sponsorship)