Senior Scrum Master – Enterprise Agile

Summary: As a Scrum Master, your focus will be enabling our Product and Technology teams to effectively deliver against our most sophisticated and exciting business & technology initiatives. You will help shape our product development practices, build strong communities, and a culture of continuous learning improvement. The Scrum Master is responsible for driving Agile standard processes within their teams, facilitating Scrum ceremonies, and removing & resolving obstacles for the developers. They may also tackle project management responsibilities at the Product team level in support of the team's Product Owner.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and lead scrum ceremonies, including Stand-ups, Sprint & Release planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Demos.
• Coach team members and the organization on Enterprise Agile framework, methodologies, standard processes, and values.
• Partner with Product Owners, Tech Leads, stakeholders, and other impacted players through Sprint Zero discovery and initial Product Backlog development to ensure teams are set up for success.
• Ensures establishing scope and priorities, managing risks/issues/dependencies, implementing solutions, and change management activities.
• Identify, resolve and remove blockers that impede the team's delivery ability.
• Track and report key metrics (e.g., team velocity, sprint rundown, budget spend, etc.) to the Product Owner, collaborators, and other impacted players.
• Participate and lead process improvement, Root Cause Analysis, and brainstorming workshops.
• Promotes a collaborative team environment that develops creativity, innovation, and improvement and gets results.
• Provide expertise on continuous process improvement strategies, organizational redesign, change management projects, and performance measures for basic business process engagements.
• Serve up to three teams depending on Product complexity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 8+ years of experience in Scrum Master or other related roles (e.g., Business Analyst, Project Management, etc.).
• CSP (Certified Scrum Professional) and/or CSM (Certified Scrum Master) are strongly preferred.
• Advanced Jira & Confluence experience and knowledge of agile practices (DAD, SAFe, Kanban and/or Lean).
• Self-motivated and capable of leading multiple priorities.
• Self-motivated with experience handling large and/or sophisticated projects.
• Proven competency in running and delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Change agent capable of coaching agile practices to teams and individuals from different functions, experiences, and geographies.
• Excellent people interaction skills can build trust and positively influence others at all levels of the organization.