Scrum Master II

EagleView has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Scrum Master II to join the product development team. As a Scrum Master, you will play a key role in EagleViews transformation to a Scaled Agile Framework, a way of working that is anchored in continuous improvement, lean product delivery, business agility, and customer centricity. Our ideal candidate brings a positive can-do attitude and a proven track-record of team building and lean product delivery.

You earn trust quickly, dont take yourself too seriously and work effectively with cross-functional and cross-regional team members. You will serve as a team coach, build high performing and self-sustaining teams while growing a healthy, collaborative, and continuously improving engineering culture. Your primary responsibilities include facilitating the learning and growth of one or more Agile teams, developing a lean-Agile mindset, improving practices and guiding teams to more predictable delivery. Day-to-day responsibilities include leading Scrum events 2 (backlog, planning, review, retrospectives, daily stand ups and representing the Scrum team(s) in weekly syncs. You also will assist with additional projects and process improvement activities.

• Facilitate team organization and agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning, daily standups, reviews/demos, and retrospectives
• Maintain velocity, burn down/up reporting and communicate team progress
• Ensure team is working efficiently towards clear, aligned sprint goals
• Work with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
• Remove impediments and make issues and problems visible; escalate as necessary
• Assist with dependency management and cross team coordination
• Serve as the primary communicator of dependencies, timelines, and constraints for the team
• Assist the Technical Product Owners (TPMs) to develop and maintain a prioritized backlog
• Act as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions
• Work collaboratively with shared services, operations, and other stakeholder teams
• Perform other duties as required and assigned by manager and upper management
• Seek out continuous learning and growth opportunities
• Learn about EagleView teams, domains, mission, vision and objectives and how they align with your team and deliverables
• Solid written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal, and collaborative skills
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment
• Must be self-motivated and know when to seek guidance
• Exceptional organization and time management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical & non-technical audiences
• Ability to work as part of a geographically dispersed team in different time zones
• Demonstrated experience with software estimation and planning techniques
• Working experience of agile methodologies and framework like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe etc.
• Contributes to fulfillment of projects and objectives
• Executes task-level deliverables with minimal coaching
• Judgements and proposals enable achievement of product objectives
• Assist with release planning and communication
• Facilitate continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams
• Understand and analyze performance measurements to facilitate team improvements
• Build and maintain a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, judgment, or retribution
• Empower the team to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
• Grow team confidence to experiment, iterate, evolve, and learn
• Experience in Agile development including coaching on agile methodologies
• Solid stakeholder management, conflict resolution, negotiation, and communication skills
• Not afraid to raise issues and inspire change while being comfortable dealing with situations of conflict, ambiguity, and uncertainty
• Should be able to coach and mentor the teams
• Demonstrates critical thinking and problem-solving skills across area of expertise
• Identifies solutions that have impact on team/feature decision-making and cost-saving
• Judgements/proposals expected to avoid expenditure or corrective resources to achieve goals
• Fully engaged in planning and prioritisation in domain for effective decision-making.

• 5+ years of experience serving in the role of Scrum Master for a software development team using Scrum/SAFe
• 3-5+ years of Scrum Master experience in Agile development including coaching on agile methodologies
• Solid written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal, and collaborative skills
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment
• History of successfully leading/supporting the delivery of products from concept to code delivery 3
• Must be self-motivated and know when to seek guidance
• Knowledge of Agile Lifecycle Management tools, particularly JIRA & Confluence
• Exceptional organization and time management skills
• Solid stakeholder management, conflict resolution, negotiation, and communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical & non-technical audiences
• Ability to work as part of a geographically dispersed team
• Demonstrated experience with software estimation and planning techniques
• Knowledge of agile methodology and scaled framework like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe etc.
• Not afraid to raise issues and inspire change while being comfortable dealing with situations of conflict, ambiguity, and uncertainty
• Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe
• Detail oriented

Bonus points if you have:

• Agile Scrum Certification (i.e. SAFe SSM, CSM, PMP-ACP, etc.)
• Understanding of continuous build and integration environments