Senior Scrum Master

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Senior Scrum Master is responsible for enabling a program of work across multiple teams to succeed. The Senior Scrum Master also elevates our agile practices across the enterprise. He or She is a master facilitator of business and IT teams, manages dependencies and release plans across teams, and leads improvements to our enterprise Agile practices.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement

At NBME ®, we continue to innovate and improve how we fulfill the evolving needs of the health care community. This commitment starts and ends with the people at NBME. By recruiting and empowering talented individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds, which includes professionals with diverse life experiences, abilities, and perspectives, NBME can take a well-informed, robust approach to advancing medical education and assessment for years to come. We also continue to focus on ensuring that our DEI work is impactful and ingrained in everything we do, including with our staff, workplace culture, products and services, the Philadelphia community and the broader medical education landscape.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serves as a delivery manager across multiple teams working toward a common goal. Facilitates business and IT team meetings and ceremonies that require collaborative planning. Monitors execution through scrum of scrum meetings and leads process improvements identified across multiple team retrospectives.
• Streamlines the initiative's governance processes (e.g. meetings, objectives, attendees).
• Identifies, documents, communicates, and monitors cross- team deliverables from inception through release.
• Apply domain knowledge to efficiently facilitate meetings and capture outcomes, understand impediments, mitigate risks, and manage dependencies within the team and with other teams. Domain knowledge within assigned domain consists of the following:
• Business process and which application functions enable it
• List of team's applications from application inventory and which technology stack they are built upon
• Software development process, including software deployment and DEVOPS processes
• System interactions with systems that integrate with their team's applications
• Understanding of the infrastructure environments and infrastructure processes
• Coordinates project procurement process (products and services required by third parties).
• Works closely with Steering Committee and Product owners to clarify initiative program goals and aggregates cost and time to complete each roadmap item. Supports the Product Owner and Development Manager to align and cascade executive level initiative goals to quarterly goals.
• Tracks and communicates progress of goal attainment and release readiness.
• Leverages agile metrics to inspect and adapt with delivery teams to constantly improve performance and responsiveness. Communicates, tracks, resolves, and escalates impediments/blockers.
• Leads organizational change and transformation, drawing on change management and systems thinking. Follows Agile PMO practices. Contributes to the development of new Scaled Agile practices. Trains new team members on all NBME® IT practices. Mentors team members in various areas of Agile and serves as an Agile proponent throughout organization. Guides other scrum masters to experiment with new agile practices.
• Delivers virtual and classroom training programs on NBME's Agile practices and Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) Tools for new and existing business and IT staff.
• Coaches Product Owners and other Scrum Masters on principles such as self-organization, cross functionality, transparency.
• Assists in the recruitment and on-boarding of temporary IT staff. Acts as first level support to temporary staff to ensure understanding of and alignment to IT processes.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Skills and Abilities

• Organization change champion
• Superior communications skills with all levels of an organization including coaching and negotiations.
• Demonstrated ability to work successfully with demanding schedule constraints and distributed teams.
• Strong facilitation and coaching skills and a "value oriented" mindset that focuses on flow.
• Demonstrated Lean-Agile Practitioner
• Must be a creative and critical thinker that is able to confidently express ideas in an articulate, concise manner.
• Knowledge and / or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair Programming, Automated Testing, Retro Games, DevOps and CICD.

Experience

5 years of relevant experience as a Scrum Master working across multiple teams

Education

• Bachelor's degree
• Preferred but not required: Certified scrum professional (CSP), Scrum Alliance/Scrum.org Certified Scrum Master or equivalent, Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Practitioner or equivalent

About NBME:

NBME offers a versatile selection of high-quality assessments and educational services for students, professionals, educators, regulators and institutions dedicated to the evolving needs of medical education and health care. To ensure our assessments meet the highest standards of quality, stay relevant and align to the current curriculum in medical schools and training programs, we rely on a wide network of collaborators. These include the volunteers who help develop our exam questions, the committees and panels who represent various groups within the medical education community, external researchers and health profession organizations.

We are committed to meeting the needs of educators and learners globally with assessment products and expert services such as NBME® , , s, the ® Program and . Together with the Federation of State Medical Boards, NBME develops and manages the , which measures the ability to apply knowledge and skills that form the basis of safe and effective patient care. Our Competency-based Assessment unit is focused on new methods as well as the optimization of assessment in the workplace and education.

As a result of leadership in ongoing research, innovative measurement practices and the exploration of forward-thinking assessment modalities and improvements, NBME advances assessment science. Our grant and funding opportunities further support this dedication to medical education and assessment science. We help develop the next generation of assessment professionals through our . Through the , and , researchers and educators can continue to improve the assessment of health care professionals around the world.

NBME views diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as foundational and enduring to our strategy and vision. We continue to focus on ensuring that our DEI work is impactful and ingrained in everything we do, including with our staff, culture, products and services, the Philadelphia community and the broader medical education landscape. Our commitment manifests in our hiring and staff development, recruitment for committees, grants programs, design and review of our assessments, and involvement in our local and national communities.

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The NBME offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a rewarding work environment. Excellent Benefits include: Healthcare, Dental, Prescription, and Vision plans; 401(k) w/match, Tuition Reimbursement Plan, Commuter Benefit: Public Transit or Parking options. Remote Friendly Workplace.

COVID-19 Considerations:

Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment, subject to potential reasonable accommodations for legitimate medical or religious reasons which prevent such vaccination. Applicants who have received a conditional offer of employment will be requested to provide information about their COVID-19 vaccination status.

NBME is an equal opportunity employer as defined by the EEOC.