Scrum Master

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We are looking to hire a SAFe Scrum Master to help guide, coach and enable the Scrum Team in the Agile process to deliver faster, on time and more efficiently.
Position Overview:
We are looking to hire a SAFe Scrum Master to help guide, coach and enable the Scrum Team in the Agile process to deliver faster, on time and more efficiently.
Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that delivery teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes
• Holds teams to sprint commitments and helps ensure the team stays focused on sprint priorities
• Facilitates and supports standard sprint ceremonies for the Scrum Team: Scrum, sprint planning, sprint retrospective
• Act as an Agile champion by promoting best practices and providing guidance to scrum teams
• Ensuring transparency into the teams work through the sprint backlog, burndown chart and other Agile metrics
• Identify and communicate risks/issues on schedule, resource capacity and scope from scrum teams
• Helps to resolve team impediments and ensures the team stays focused on the sprint goal
• Works with other Scrum Masters to grow and increase the advancement of the Agile process
• Builds self-organized, self-governed, sustainable, high performing teams that deliver continuously and look for continuous improvement opportunities
• Embody agility using a servant leadership approach with the product owner, Development team and leadership

Required Skills:

• 4-7 years of experience in Technology and working across IT and Business organizations supporting delivery of projects

• 1-2 years work experience in a SAFe or scaled Agile environment as well as experience in guiding or transforming teams into scaled Agile environment
• 4-7 years of experience working as a Scrum Master in a software development environment and leveraging agile methodologies
• Bachelor degree and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) certification or equivalent
  required
  Deep understanding of Scrum Framework and the agile principles
• Demonstrated experience in different agile methodologies such as: Scrum, Kanban and SAFe
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection and other Scrum techniques
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation and coaching skills
• Preferred experience utilizing Azure Devops for Sprint work and dashboards
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams
• Exudes a positive attitude and supports and personifies department standards and initiatives
• Flexible to evolve as department and company initiatives change

Echo Global Logistics is a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation management services. As a third-party logistics provider, we simplify transportation management for our clients and carriers so they can focus on what they do best. From coast to coast, dock to dock, and across all major transportation modes, Echo connects businesses that need to ship their products with carriers who transport goods quickly, securely, and cost-effectively.
Work environment/physical demands summary:
This job operates in a remote office environment and uses a computer, telephone and other office equipment as needed to perform duties. The employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or Vietnam era or other protected veteran.