Sr. Scrum Master

Job Title: Sr. Scrum Master

Duration: 1 -Year

Location: Beaverton, OR (Remote)

Responsibilities:

(The primary tasks, functions, and deliverables of the role) • Operates as a team-based servant leader in service to the team's needs. • Ensures the team is practicing Agile principles. • Partners with, coaches and supports Product Owner in managing the backlog to ensure it is properly prioritized and appropriately sized. • Facilitates all Scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, demos). • Establishes, tracks and communicates agile metrics (such as team velocity and sprint progress/burn down chart) to team, management and any impacted stakeholders. • Facilitates alignment and assists Product Owner and Delivery Team with making appropriate commitments. • Identifies, removes and/or escalates risks, roadblocks and cross team dependencies that are unresolvable by the team and interfere with the team's ability to deliver commitments. • Accountable for promoting continuous improvement by coaching the team to use metrics to identify and measure progress. • Participates with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization and cross-scrum collaboration on delivery execution. • Continuously learns new approaches to facilitation, agile best practices and how to improve team dynamics. • Helps the Team to focus on delivery of high quality stories on a predictable, sustainable cadence.

Required Skills:

• Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools • Familiarity or experience with other agile methodologies such as LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming etc. • In-depth understanding of Agile Principles and how they're applied in workplace culture • Strong facilitation and coaching skills within teams and groups • Experience resolving issues across teams • Effective communication, team dynamics, conflict resolution, mentoring, and servant leadership skills • Sufficient understanding of technology systems and the team's ecosystem to help team overcome roadblocks • Relevant certification in the field preferred (examples below)

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

Education • High School + 7 yrs exp • Bachelor's degree

5 years relevant work experience