Scrum Master

Scrum Master Description

Essential Duties:

• Guide teams on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
• Coach, mentor, and/or facilitate existing teams and be an enterprise advocate for enterprise agile activities: daily standup, estimation, WBS, user stories, planning, retrospectives, prioritization, backlog grooming to improve team performance
• Able to support 2-3 scrum teams simultaneously
• Focus on mentoring the teams to be self-organizing, self-managed and self-disciplined
• Assess the team’s scrum maturity coach to higher levels of maturity at a sustainable pace
• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame and emphasize problem solving
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
• Coach and mentor Functional Managers, Program Team, Product Managers, to foster transparency and establish process improvement
• Define, Document and communicate best practices to drive continuous improvement and team innovation

Skills and Experience:

• At least 1-2 years of experience as a Scrum Master in an enterprise setting.
• Demonstrated experience of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment and transparency.
• Experience applying a wide variety of patterns and techniques in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Previous experience as a team lead is helpful but not required
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc. is helpful but not required
• Training or certification is helpful, but not required

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $80,000.00 to $100,000.00 /year

Additional Compensation:

• Bonuses

Work Location:

• One location

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance