Senior Scrum Master I

As Senior Scrum Master, you will serve as the servant leader for your team(s) by ensuring clear communication and helping the team reach its goal. You will coach the team on the appropriate Agile methodology focused on predictable, quality delivery and driv e continuous improvement of the team. You ll facilitate team productivity by removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team s goals and by preserving flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes on the team.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Serving as Senior Scrum Master for two or more Scrum teams of moderate complexity
• Assessing Agile maturity within immediate Scrum teams
• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies and providing coaching to further improve Agile maturity of teams via daily Scrum, retrospectives, sprint planning, and demonstrations
• Ensuring team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery of business value
• Helping team proactively identify impediments and consistently recommending solutions to remove impediments
• Coaching the team through quarterly release planning events
• Representing the team(s) in regular Scrum of Scrums (S2) meetings and clearly communicating team accomplishments, impediments, and dependencies
• Acting as an influencer by implementing Agile processes, practices, principles, and values; helping team and organization to improve collaboration and self- organization
• Demonstrating the ability to balance data with other factors when making decisions
• Utilizing team feedback, analyzing data, and reporting on team factors such as quality, delivery rate, throughput, productivity, and velocity
• Identifying process inefficiencies and facilitating discussions for solutions

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree or related work experience
• 5-8 years of Agile or other related experience
• Familiarity with and enthusiasm for Agile practices
• Familiarity with scaling Agile, particularly with using the Scaled Agile Framework ( SAFe )
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to pay accurate and precise attention to detail
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with the Scrum team and stakeholders
• Comfort working with multiple, globally distributed teams, both in-house and remote
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred skills/qualifications:

• Scrum Alliance CSM or PMI s Agile Certified Professional