Scum Master

Job Description: Medline Industries has an opening for an experienced Scrum Master. The role of the SM is to work with the team to facilitate the overall coordination, status reporting, and schedule and ensure that project goals and objectives are met via effective Agile practices. The person should have very clear understanding of the values and the why s behind those values , as this person will be expected to coach the team around those. Some of the responsibilities are: Facilitate the teams Scrum ceremonies, i.e. Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog grooming. Liaise with the Product Owner and the Business Analysts in order to ensure completeness and clarity of user stories and acceptance criteria. Guiding the team on how to get the most of out of self-organization. Guiding the team on the Agile Scrum methodology in order to constantly improve the Scrum teams standards of work. Managing relationships and communicating with the project sponsor, senior management and other project contributors Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment. Identify opportunities for process improvements and drive those from idea to implementation. Act as a change agent for the team. Contribute to advancement and improvement of agile practices within organization. Skills / Experience: Minimum 8 years of total experience 4+ years as a scrum practitioner on scrum teams. Experience in working onshore-offshore model/Global teams. Strong Coaching and people skills. Excellent verbal and written communication/Interpersonal skill. Experience with JIRA and Confluence Knowledge of software development lifecycle models in-depth. Understand the fundamentals of DevOps/Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Experience in using Agile performance metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement.