Job Description
Job Information
Job Taxonomy:
External Consultant/Contractor
Job Title:
Sr. Scrum Master
Job Description:
The Sr. Scrum Master will be responsible for leading multiple agile teams, and complex projects. The responsibilities will include..
- Agile based software development
- Agile based module development
- Cross functional communication
- Applying software development practices from requirements through delivery
- Teaching and coaching team members and product owners on applicable processes and tools for effective agile adoption.
Skills/Experience:
- Ensures the Scrum team is practicing the core SAFe agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, and team accountability to achieve Sprint goals and lead the team towards Agile maturity
- Implements program level transparency, metrics, and other data that instills accountability measures within team and working with the Release Train Engineer
- Establishes themselves as a welcomed and trusted advisor on agile transformation to managers, scrum masters, product owners, developers and other stakeholders
- Helps to identify and attack organizational impediments which limits team productivity, quality, and ability to implement continuous improvement
- Supports Product Owners with backlog maintenance, backlog prioritization, and user story refinement process to deliver highest business value
- Facilitates Sprint planning, daily scrum, dependency reviews, demos to stakeholders, and retrospectives
- Uses Scrum of Scrums (SOS) forum and coordinates with other teams to manage cross-team dependencies
- Facilitates frequent retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements
This list is not all-inclusive and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned
Required Skills:
- Expert knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution
- Strong organizational skills to increase productivity and efficiency while managing multiple projects
- Understands software application development process steps (from design to delivery)
- Advanced understanding of various agile methodologies; SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP
- Ability to develop and use historical data to help team learn and improve their process and practices
- Understands the role and function of Product ownership in an agile team
- Has skills and experience in teaching new Agile/Scrum concepts to the team
- Seeks the latest trends in process improvement
- Mastery of Lean Agile Leadership
- Awareness of CI-CD and DevOps concepts and how it impacts software development and delivery
- Be an Agile champion and guide one or more teams in adoption of Agile/Scrum/SAFe principles
- Advanced knowledge of, Jira, Confluence, and Jira Align, MS-Office Applications
Desired Skills:
Degree Requirements:
- 4+ w/Bachelors degree
- A-CSM or SAFe SM or PSM-II
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