Job Description
Description:
Role Overview
The scrum master facilitates and champions the agile delivery process by coaching and mentoring teams, identifying and eliminating impediments, and promoting the use of standards and best practices. The scrum master ensures smooth operation of agile processes and activities and is responsible for facilitating key ceremonies in the lifecycle of the team.
Key Responsibilities
- Champion and facilitate adoption of agile standards, tools, and best practices in this transitional environment
- Organize and facilitate agile activities and ceremonies including daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and product backlog refinement sessions.
- Coordinate and facilitate coordination with other SMs, teams, etc. for shared ceremonies (e.g., Scrum of Scrums, PI Planning).
- Facilitate meetings that are productive, on topic, and within the timebox.
- Collaborate closely with the product owner to manage the backlog.
- Effectively facilitate user story estimation and forecasting.
- Coach team on established IT and corporate standards (e.g., security, quality, and architecture) to minimize operational and reputational risk.
- Utilize feedback and metrics (e.g., quality, delivery, cadence, etc.) to facilitate identifying areas of opportunity and work with team to continuously improve.
- Coach the team to improve collaboration and self-management, promoting healthy interactions both within the team and with external stakeholders.
- Support the team in using agile planning and development tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Rally).
- Experiment with new practices and frameworks to improve team outcomes.
- Actively participate in learning opportunities such as communities of practice or conferences to improve skills and better support the team.
- Contribute to the advancement and improvement of agile practices within the organization.
Skills and Competencies
- Experience in transitioning environment: bridging waterfall and agile while bringing teams into new ways of working
- Knowledge and experience with agile practices, frameworks, and techniques- SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) preferred
- Coaching skills and ability to motivate teams.
- Strong facilitation, communication, and presentation skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with agile planning and development tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent years of experience).
- 3+ years of scrum master experience with new-to-agile teams
- Agile certification required (e.g. CSM, SAFe preferred).
- Background in data is preferred.
Candidates must have at least 5 years of full-time work experience in the US
Additional Details
Preferred Pay Rate Range : 100
FLSA Exemption Status : Non-Exempt/OT Eligible
Will the worker be handling cash? : No
Will the worker be driving a vehicle? : No
What type of vehicle will the worker be driving? : (No Value)
What will the worker be transporting? : (No Value)
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Does this job require the worker to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19? : No
Work Hours : 1st Shift
Select the time zone of the work hours. : EST
Go To Work : No
Provide specific details regarding work schedule or hours. : team members may be in IST so 7/8 am start ET is helpful
Is this position fully remote? : Yes
Skill Category : IT
If there is a special recruitment reason, please select the reason. If not, please leave as No : No
Alternative Job Title if different than Job Posting Template Title : SAFe Scrum Master
Do you have a pre-identified candidate for this position? : No
If yes, what is their name? : (No Value) Della Infotech
Job Tags
Full time, Work experience placement, Remote job, Shift work, Day shift,