Scrum Master

SCRUM MASTER

Metro Systems is actively seeking a Scrum Master to support a Fortune 100 Company in the Denver Area.

JOB SUMMARY:

Servant leader and coach for one or more agile scrum teams ensuring the effective use and practices of the agile framework in achieving business value. Oversees projects and responsible for the scrum process from initiation to delivery.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Support stakeholders to ensure the highest quality products to our customers.
• Monitor team velocity, throughput, burndown, cumulative flow and work with teams and release train engineer for improvements.
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including: daily stand ups, backlog groomings, sprint planning, sprint demos, and sprint retrospectives
• Owns and Resolves team blockers as it pertains to Sprints and Program increments.
• Attend bug-triage meetings and help prioritize work.
• Responsible for burndown chart and communicating actions to meet team commitments, keeping in-sprint stories organized and properly managed.
• Manage, maintain, and utilize Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools.
• Report on sprints that are in-progress.
• Coordinate project activities including updating document repository. .
• Collaborate with agile team to ensure prioritized work is groomed, planned, and executed appropriately.
• Collaborate with agile team to ensure prioritized work is groomed, planned, and executed appropriately.
• Work with other scrum masters, release train engineering and project managers to ensure alignment on dependencies.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience working in medium to large scale consumer facing product development
• Solid track record building and releasing new products from conception to production
• Possess technical knowledge of multiple platforms and form factors (web, phone, tablet, TV, etc.)
• Thorough understanding of the Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and collaborative Agile environment
• Aptitude and eagerness to learn from a new environment and make an impact quickly
• Ability to foster change
• Ability to motivate others
• Ability to manage complex and diverse projects, including multiple projects and tasks
• Ability to listen to multiple points of view and synthesize against goals for recommendations
• Ability to plan, prioritize and organize effectively and independently
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems while working under pressure
• Ability to show judgment and initiative to accomplish job duties
• Ability to communicate with all levels of management and internal partners
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing in a clear and straightforward manner
• Ability to use personal computer and software applications; proficient in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent ability to work well with shifting priorities
• Excellent ability to track multiple development efforts simultaneously and to be able to synthesize the results in fast paced environment
• Understands both Scrum and Kanban methodologies and can easily interchange based off team needs
• Extensive experience working with JIRA, Confluence, or other Agile development tools
• Great analytical skills
• Good business acumen and sense of urgency to achieve business results

PREFFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education
• AGILE scrum certified (Certified Scrum Master-CSM), or equivalent.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

RELATED JOB EXPERIENCE:

• 4 years of related industry experience (Telecommunications, etc.)
• 3 years of experience as Scrum Master
• Running agile development teams at an enterprise organization