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RESPONSIBILITIES:• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as story grooming, sprint planning, release planning, sprint retrospective, demo, and product backlog review.• Coordinate all aspects of the sprint delivery, including analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment activities.• Define and implement structured release plan, including forecasting, tracking, and reporting.• Drive all committed user stories through completion during the sprint.• Maintain and share relevant metrics that give teams and stakeholders visibility into their performance.• Drive the Scrum team and stakeholders to collaboratively negotiate scope and delivery schedule.• Ensure the current state of the sprint/release is accurately and clearly represented in TFS/Rally/Jira, and provides status updates to business and IT stakeholders.• Eliminate impediments making sure the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the sprint.• Monitor daily issues impacting the team; facilitate resolutions and escalation as necessary.• Work with Product Owner to effectively manage product backlog.• Ensure that improvements identified during sprint retrospective are being executed.• Coach and help the team self-organize and work cross-functionally.• Manage interdependencies with other teams in the ART (Agile Release Train).• Partner with Release Train Engineers to drive continuous improvement in alignment with SAFe principles within a release train• Quickly learn and apply organizational and SAFe Scrum knowledge to drive effective, efficient delivery• Aptitude to identify and act upon coachable moments in the spirit of Agile transformation is integral to this roleQUALIFICATIONS:• 5+ years of related work experience as a project manager and scrum master in a transforming organization• SAFe Scrum Master Certification and 3+ years of formal scrum master experience required, SAFe 5.0 highly preferred• Knowledge of and hands-on experience with the SAFe Agile Scrum framework required• Experience working in a highly matrixed environment• Able to lead a team to make realistic and achievable delivery commitments• Able to demonstrate experience leading teams and increasing effectiveness• Able to network across a large organization to facilitate team needs• Strong leadership, time management, and conflict resolution skills• Experience using TFS/Jira/Rally strongly preferredEDUCATION:• Bachelor’s degree in technical field required
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