Scrum Master, Enterprise Justice

Description

Tyler Technologies Enterprise Justice Division is looking to hire a Scrum Master to manage multiple teams. As a Scrum master you will be leading multiple teams in a Scaled Agile Environment. You will be the servant leader who enables teams to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver via effective Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Scrum Master for multiple teams.
• Assist in overall planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood.
• Resolve cross-team impediments and blocking issues.
• Collect and consolidate cross-team status for delivery to stakeholders and executive management.
• Schedule and conduct meetings and ceremonies in accordance with best practices for Agile/Scrum software development.
• Responsible for building team collaboration, commitment towards achieving sprint objectives and viewing team needs above everything else.
• Continuously work to improve team performance and productivity:
  • Encourage team accountability, self-organization, and empowerment.
  • Share common Agile practices.
  • Promote and support the development team's processes.
  • Facilitate Retrospectives which generate new ideas for process improvement.
• Maintain relevant metrics that guide the development team to more efficient processes in their work and in satisfying their Product Owner and stakeholders.
• Maintain effective information radiators that aid transparency and encourage clear communication between the development team, the Product Owner, and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in related field or equivalent experience
• Subject matter expert of Scrum in addition to extensive knowledge of other Agile development approaches and practices.
• Strong communicator with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be comfortable communicating with development teams, Product Owners, Product Management, and Senior Management.
• Experience working with Jira project management tools and implementation of best practices in Agile tools and workflows.
• Experience working in a scaled agile, environment preferred
• County Government domain experience a plus
• Strong mentoring skills
• Knowledge and understanding of the full software development lifecycle and associated methodologies are helpful.
• Strong planning and organizational skills involving the ability to manage multiple work tasks effectively.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills involving communicating information in writing and verbally; including an occasional presentation.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaborate in a team across functional groups
• Strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills - must be able to facilitate discussion of multiple approaches and drive resolution.
• Strong influencer, able to work upward and across teams to build rapport and partner with others to solve common problems.
• High level of personal accountability, as evidenced by their commitment, resilience, ownership, and mindset toward continuous learning.
• Continual improvement - must be constantly growing one's craft, learning new tools and techniques, and sharing these within and among teams.
• Assertive - must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, and make the tough calls.
• Ability to facilitate, understand, and contribute to technical discussions.
• High motivation and drive to help the program teams excel and deliver based on program timelines.
• Understand that their role in the organization is broader than the details included in this job description.
• Excellent interpersonal skills - ability to work with diverse personality types.