Scrum Master
Job Description
Duration:1 year (contract)
Pay rate: $79/hr on W2
Location:100% Remote
Key Skills Required: Mapping, Mentoring, Cadence, Metrics
Job Responsibilities:
- Support the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its daily and iteration objectives
- Support the teams focus on delivery of high-quality stories on a predictable, sustainable cadence
- Facilitate the teams assessing and planning for risk
- Ensure agreed upon Agile methodology principles and practices are understood and enacted.
- Coach Agile team in self-organization and cross-functionality and promote Agile mindset
- Provide visibility to impediments to the Agile Team's progress that the team cannot remove themselves
- Facilitate the team's relationship with outside stakeholders
- Facilitate conversations between Product Owner and team in regard to rebalancing and reprioritizing work within a sprint
- Ensure Product Owner has backlog prioritized for each iteration
- Protect the team from interruptions and distractions to clear a path for throughput
- Facilitate ceremonies/team meetings and ensure time-boxed events stay within their allotted time
- Continuously learn new approaches to facilitation, Agile best practices and how to improve team dynamics
- Foster a positive environment for the Agile team to continually improve and learn
- Drive cross Capability coordination and scheduling with other Scrum Masters
- Coordinate with other Scrum Masters, the System Team, and Shared Resources during ART/Cross-train Quarterly Planning and Release Planning Meetings to remove issues and raise risks, as appropriate
- Track and utilize agreed upon metrics to drive meaningful conversations and improvement opportunities
Required Skills:
- Deep understanding of Agile development frameworks, specifically Scrum, Kanban and Large-Scale Scrum
- Demonstrated understanding of technology systems and the Technology ecosystem
- Demonstrated ability to understand business needs
- Proven ability to pull together individuals of varying technical and business abilities with different goals and facilitate productive discussion and action
- Strong written and verbal communication, conflict resolution, and servant leadership skills
- Demonstrated understanding and reinforcement of the value of Agile mindset and the required iteration events
- Excellent facilitation skills and techniques
Educational Qualifications:
- Bachelors' degree in Business, Psychology, Anthropology, or Organizational Development with 2 years' additional relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree
- 3-5 years hands-on Scrum Master/Coach experience in advanced, large-scale Agile setting
- Certified Scrum Master and other Scrum certification desired
- Experience working with Jira or similar tool, building summary views, using agile planning boards, setting up dashboards preferred
- Familiarity or experience with other agile methodologies such as LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming preferred
Date Posted
11/14/2022
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