Scrum Master (Remote)

About the Company

Act as Scrum Master or Agile coach on more than one cross-functional agile team, Build strong trust and work tightly with Engineering Leadership, Facilitate daily scrum and other ceremonies associated with chosen Agile methodology, Lead teams to self-organization, Facilitating getting work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating, Constantly assess team and tweak application of Agile to increase efficiency and remove waste, Collaborate and partner with peer Agile Coaches to apply shared learnings to all teams, Create transparency by radiating information within the team and outside of the team, Manage a complex web of communication across a matrixed Agile team, and organization (both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and various levels of leadership), Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution Shields team from external disruptions, Own Agile-related metrics like white on rice!, Train teams and outside stakeholders in Agile practices, Work tightly with the product owner to ensure clarity of requirements and exit criteria What you are like:, Zealot about Agile principles, not methodologies, Have a great, positive attitude, You take the performance of your team personal (extreme ownership), An exceptional listener, Servant leader, Impeccable communication skills, Exude credibility in Agile domain, Influencer, Never blocked. You find a way!, Flexible, Enjoy the work of gathering and reporting metrics (Data driven outcomes)

Responsibilities

• Act as Scrum Master or Agile coach on more than one cross-functional agile team
• Build strong trust and work tightly with Engineering Leadership
• Facilitate daily scrum and other ceremonies associated with chosen Agile methodology
• Lead teams to self-organization
• Facilitating getting work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating
• Constantly assess team and tweak application of Agile to increase efficiency and remove waste
• Collaborate and partner with peer Agile Coaches to apply shared learnings to all teams
• Create transparency by radiating information within the team and outside of the team
• Manage a complex web of communication across a matrixed Agile team, and organization (both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and various levels of leadership)
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution Shields team from external disruptions
• Own Agile-related metrics like white on rice!
• Train teams and outside stakeholders in Agile practices
• Work tightly with the product owner to ensure clarity of requirements and exit criteria What you are like:
• Zealot about Agile principles, not methodologies
• Have a great, positive attitude
• You take the performance of your team personal (extreme ownership)
• An exceptional listener
• Servant leader
• Impeccable communication skills
• Exude credibility in Agile domain
• Influencer
• Never blocked. You find a way!
• Flexible
• Enjoy the work of gathering and reporting metrics (Data driven outcomes)

Qualifications

First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I), Deep and hands-on knowledge of various Agile frameworks (Lean/Kanban, Scrum, etc), 3+ years playing active Scrum Master or coach role within development teams, Experience communicating and defending (and taking ownership for) performance metrics with Sr leadership and business stakeholders, Have trained and converted teams who were not Agile to a successful and sustained Agile outcome, Demonstrated master level skill at one or more Agile tool suites (Rally, Jira, Azure DevOps, VersionOne, etc), Highly skilled at identifying and removing blockages within team, Familiarly with and experienced serving software engineering teams, Thorough understanding of software engineering principles and industry trends (e.g refactoring, architecture, DevOps, automation, CI/CD, telemetry, and so on..)

Technical Experience

• PMP or ACP Cert preferred
• Scrum Cert preferred
• SA Cert preferred
• Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, Project
• Knowledge of SDLC
• Rally
• Presentation Skills