Scrum Master

Job Description

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Job Description

As a Scrum Master, you'll be dealing with more complex situations and you’ll need to work across functional units, and other teams, and upper levels of management. You can expect to work on a wide variety of situations involving more complex scaling factors and variations. In this role you will identify allies and coordinate with other teams to improve delivery of value to the customer.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on consistently improving and problem-solving.

• Works with Scrum Teams as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support with organizational changes.

• Resolve team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile in the organization.

• Solving unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business.

• Offer conceptual and innovative approaches to improve organizational agility.

• Use expert agile knowledge to guide teams to utilize tools and practices for software development.

• Effectively lead the scrum team to achieve higher levels of scrum maturity.

• Guide, coach, and mentor Product Owners and more junior or aspiring Scrum Masters within the organization

• Act as a trusted representative for the team in committees, coordinate with IT colleagues from other teams, and are SPOC for the product owner and release manager or other functions from the business.

• Deliver ongoing training for the team, product owners, developers, and testers to consolidate and support the future development of agile methods in the organization.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Minimum 4 years of Scrum Master experience leading small-mid-sized agile teams

• Minimum 5 years of IT/SW delivery experience working in agile environment

• Has identifiable impact on results of the team and program or product levels

• Demonstrable experience to apply Scrum principles, practices, and theory of Scrum, Kanban, Agile Development and Integration

• Strong analytical skills to grasp complexities and identify relationships between problems, risks, issues, and solutions; ability to work with a team to reach a consensus

• Solid Team and Organizational coaching experience to realize benefits arising from Agile Principles, self-management, empowerment, incremental deliveries, and inter-team cooperation

• Ability to adapt to a changing environment

• Proven ability to continually build job knowledge & skills

• Strong communication skills

• Written and spoken English language proficiency (C1)

Preferred

• Has knowledge across several different Agile disciplines

• Industry-recognized Agile and / or DevOps Qualifications

• Preferred University Technical Degree (or equivalent experience in the field)

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