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- 7+ years as a Scrum Master/project manager/program manager with dedicated agile teams using Scrum/SAFe.
- Experienced and adept user of Agile Lifecycle Management tools, particularly JIRA.
- Communicative and social excellent interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types.
- Relevant undergraduate BA, BS degree in IT or Business or equivalent experience
- Assertive must be able to ensure agile and scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, and not afraid to be a voice of reason and authority.
- Willing to able to hold the team accountable to its vision and values.
- Situationally Aware must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to team and to management, where appropriate.
- Attitude of transparency must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the Product Owner about the team and grow business trust.
- Creativity, initiative, and flexibility - tempered by pragmatism, patience and attention to detail.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMI-ACP, SAFe SM preferred
- Supports and enforces the rules of the scrum process and other rules that the team has agreed upon. e.g. WIP limits
- Communicates status to customers, team and management as needed
- Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile leader with a Lean-Agile mindset. Helps the team embrace core Agile values and principles (SAFe or Scrum or Kanban.)
- Leads scrum teams for medium to complex deliveries.
- Leads the team's efforts in relentless improvement and facilitates the team's retrospective.
- Facilitates all the team's meetings and ceremonies depending on the framework used (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban)
- Removes roadblocks, many of which will be beyond the team's authority or will require support from other teams
- Coordinates with other teams and manages cross-scrum team and cross- program/ART dependencies - for example participates in Scrum of Scrum Meetings (for ARTs) and/or other PI Planning sessions and passes information back to the team
- Coordinates with the System Team, UX, DevOps, Shared Services, security etc.
- Ensures that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Agile/Scrum Team
- Ensures the Team understands scrum theory, practices, rules and values.
- Improves team performance by identifying, managing, and supporting resolution of team impediments
- Conducts performance appraisals of staff and provides career guidance through regular coaching and mentoring.
- Displays an engineering mindset and systems thinking while understanding the economic view.
- Embraces a continuous improvement mind-set and highlights opportunities to improve efficiency of scrum teams
- Accountable for team's understanding of Scrum and other agile practices and ensures the team is effectively applying these.
- Serves as Servant Leader/Coach for a maximum of 1-2 Scrum team (6-12 people per scrum team)
- Understands and operates within the product team budget
- Responsible for ensuring that the committed to sprint backlog is completed
- May be required to mentor other Scrum Masters as needed
Vacancy expired!