Sr. Scrum Master

Senior Scrum Master- Atlanta

HatchWorks Technologies is currently seeking a Senior Scrum Master to join our growing team in Atlanta.

Our Senior Scrum Masters are passionate about fostering and supporting collaborative teams by creating an environment of trust and predictability. They have a passion for understanding and identifying risks, dependencies, assumptions and clearing impediments for their team. They operate collaboratively with business stakeholders, designers, and developers and are experts at navigating through ambiguous environments to continuously support their agile team in achieving their goals.

The Senior Scrum Master has primary responsibility of facilitating the learning and growth of one or more Agile teams in developing a lean-Agile mindset, improving practices and guiding them to more predictable delivery. The Scrum Master plays a role in facilitating Agile ceremonies and planning of releases, removing impediments, providing guidance, and supporting Agile teams.

Servant leadership is a key aspect of this role as you seek to support and grow others, encourage others, and make others successful. The ideal candidate will bring enthusiasm and excellent communication skills, successfully adapting to different DISC personality profiles within HatchWorks and with external HatchWorks clients.

For some projects, you will partner with our client’s Scrum Master and work to make HatchWorks’ personnel successful in its duties. For other projects, you will be the sole Scrum Master.

Key Job Responsibilities:

Delivery Team Support:

• Removes impediments and blockers to the team’s ability to perform
• Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions
• Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution
• Facilitates team development, mediates conflicts protecting the team and encourages healthy team dynamics
• Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization
• Leverages coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems

Advice and Guidance:

• Introduces and encourages team to explore healthy Agile (XP) development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery
• Teaches and encourages a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability
• Helps the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements
• Promotes transparency through healthy communications and data integrity

Agile Ceremony Facilitation:

• Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams
• Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management
• Teaches new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process
• Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices
• Mentors Product Owners and team members in agile practices and continuous improvement

Backlog Management Practices:

• Works with Product Owners and team members to learn and practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices
• Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement
• Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams
• Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination

Required Experience (minimum):

• Experiencing leading multiple projects simultaneously
• Bachelor’s degree or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education
• Working experience in Agile with a Consulting or Professional Services company
• Working experience as a Scrum Master
• Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), or Kanban
• Scrum master certification
• Jira and Confluence software experience

Preferred Experience:

• Consultant / Consulting experience at a mid to large sized consulting firm
• Waterfall to Agile transformations
• Executive presence and reporting

If you think the HatchWorks experience could be a great fit for you, please click “Apply” to submit your resume for consideration. To learn more about our organization, visit us at http://www.hatchworks.com

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