Scrum Master

The Scrum Master is known as Servant Leader of the Scrum Team, someone that resolves impediment and promotes the Agile adoption across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitates the Agile process
• Oversees the Scrum process and coaches the team; facilitates transparency, inspection, and adaptation
• Helps the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done
• Ensures that all Scrum Events take place and are positive, productive, and kept with the timebox
• Causes the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team's progress
• Facilitates communication and collaboration inside and outside the team
• Shields the team from external interference and ensures the team is fully functional and productive
• Fosters self-organization and cross-functionality of the team
• Helping the team agree on what they can achieve during each sprint (or other time period).
• Coaches Agile Teams to be cross-functional and Self-managing high performing teams
• Helps find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management
• Helps the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog Items
• Helps establish empirical product planning for a complex environment
• Facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed.
• Leads, trains and coaches the organization in its Agile adoption

Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of Agile & lean values and principles
• Working experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach of distributed Agile team (3+ yrs), tech domain preferred
• Skilled in training or coaching individuals and teams in Agile practices and values (lean and product management a plus), Working experience > 2yrs
• Working knowledge of best practices in value-driven development (requirements management, prototyping, hypothesis-driven development, usability testing)
• Working knowledge of technical engineering best practices including test driven development, continuous integration, DevOps
• good communicator with problem solving mindset and focus on process improvement
• Working knowledge of work management and collaboration tools (Jira and confluence preferred)
• Scrum Master and Agile Certifications
• Experience with scaling agile across the organization preferably Scrum@Scale

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Skills and Competencies:

• Servant Leadership: Puts the needs of the team before their own
• Facilitation, training, teaching, coaching, and mentoring
• Scaling Agile (Scrum@Scale)
• Product Management
• Business Strategy
• Engineering Practices

This role is to manage the agile process within the DAVE Organization.
They are serving as a Scrum of Scrum Masters within CTI DAVE Organization and would:

• facilitate trainings and coaching for Scrum Masters and Product owners within a pillar
• cascade best practices within CTI DAVE Organizations
• facilitate scaling within a pillar - support coordination of efforts that span across multiple teams, coach teams to adopt scrum at scale practices for alignment and impediments removal
• actively participate in continuous improvements of the within CTI Services Framework - share feedback & lessons learnt from the pillar with other Agile Leads and contribute to the defining best practices and governance
• measure Agile Transformation within a pillar
  • capture and analyze portfolio level metrics
  • ensure teams are tracking metrics around delivery efficiency to drive continuous improvements

Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Systems & Engineering

Time Type:
Full time

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