Senior Scrum Master

Professional Experience:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and organize daily stand-up meetings, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other activities as needed
• Prevent or remove impediments and distractions that interfere with the ability of the development team to deliver on their goals
• Work with Product Owner and Business Analyst to groom and prioritize backlog for upcoming releases and iterations.
• Aid delivery team with determining suitable commitments for user stories, defects, and tasking
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Maintain process documentation
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
• Assist as needed with backlog maintenance
• Knowledge about different tools and backlog management systems (Azure DevOps, GitHub)
• Risk identification and mitigation for a individual team as well as a group
  

• RTE experience and any SAFe certifications
  

Job Qualifications Education

• BS or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 6-9 yrs. industrial experience out of which min. 3 yrs. as a Scrum master or agile coach.
• Preferred First level Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM I) Experience (SAFe)
• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least three years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (e.g.: numerous Burn down techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.
• Effective verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Experience using Devops/Jira to manage Scrum activities.