Senior Scrum Master Data Analytics (Remote)

Remote, USA

Contract

Posted 11/22/2024

Job Description

The Portfolio, Program and Technology Business Management group seeks a Senior Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering world-class products within complex digital environments to advance our platform and applications. Our ideal candidate will bring a broad range of lean and agile experiences working within large-scale organizations with specific knowledge working with digital technologies and processes at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for guiding the development of an agile team into an effective delivery unit with a sustainable cadence
• Responsible for ensuring the team’s process evolves within organizational guidelines and standards of practice
• Must be able to nurture self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring
• Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and processes
• Excellent communicator, able to gain the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and management
• Able to resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation
• Must be willing and able to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution
• Must be able to facilitate the development process
• Uphold and defend, as well as coach and mentor, agile values and principles as expressed in the Agile Manifesto
• Skilled at creating a fully transparent development process
• Capable of being a scrum master for one to three scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work
• Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, retrospectives and sprint reviews
• Assist the product manager with keeping the backlog groomed
• Assist the team with implementing effective agile disciplinary practices
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal

Requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant IT experience including strong understanding of customer/stakeholder relationships, business analysis, prioritization, estimation and capacity management
• Must have a thorough understanding of iterative/incremental software development
• Complete understanding of agile processes such as Scrum, XP and Kanban
• Must have recognized education in agile processes, certifications preferred
• Must have been a member of an agile team for at least 5 years
• Able to lead a team to make realistic and achievable delivery commitments
• Understand agile metrics and reporting techniques
• Experience to explain and promote agile engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous delivery, TDD, BDD and refactoring preferred
• Experience using Jira and Aha! to track and make visible sprint backlog, agile metrics and product roadmaps preferred
• Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and help the team see how they are doing

Job ID:

1010477 Senior Scrum Master, Data & Analytics – remote