Senior Scrum Master

Essential Duties: 

• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary software development projects from inception to completion. 

• Facilitate discussions and drive resolution to issues. 

• Work with Product Owners to ensure project scope does not increase without appropriate coverage (resource, financial, etc.). 

• Manage project schedules, identify risks and communicate them to the appropriate channels. 

• Maintain dependency plan between planned sprints across development, infrastructure, and third parties. 

• Organize and facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives. 

• Create an environment in which the team is continuously learning from the past. 

• Work with the team to groom the backlog for preparation for future sprints. 

• Tracks team members’ work progress ensuring delivery commitments are achieved. 

• Break down barriers and shield the development team from impediments to ensure progress against sprints and deadlines. 

• Manage and track team velocity and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports. 

• Ensure team is following established best practices. 

• Apply a sense of urgency, commitment and focus on the right priorities in delivering solutions in a timely fashion. 

Minimum Education and Experience Required: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience 

• 4+ years of relevant work experience 

• Experience with professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC) 

• Experience managing software development projects 

• Must be able to multi-task, problem solve, learn quickly, and adapt to changing priorities 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong interpersonal and influencing skills; ability to effect change in a matrix managed environment 

• Excel in a fast-paced environment providing rapid delivery for business partners 

• Experience facilitating Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development methodologies to deliver technology solutions on time, on budget, and to specifications 

• Experience working in a highly collaborative environment that values speed and quality, with a strong desire to drive change and foster a positive work environment to achieve results 

• Ability and willingness to consistently live and embrace our core values of accountable, inclusive, transparent, and focused