Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Enable teams to deliver increasing value to clients in a sustainable manner
• Guide teams on their journey toward agile maturity
• Ensure team understanding of requested/prioritized value and appropriately considers sequencing, timing, dependencies, etc
• Take accountability for planning that ensures iterations lead to accomplishment of client delivery dates
• Manage team focus within committed iterations
• Help teams identify and remove impediments and dependencies
• Ensure and facilitate cross-team coordination, facilitating scrum of scrums as needed
• Coach teams as they inspect and adapt between iterations, identifying clear actions and helping the team hold itself accountable as well as measure success
• Track and improve overall team health and metrics, reporting internally to the team, up to senior management and externally to clients
• Provide visibility and transparency toward delivery against a roadmap of work and a milestone/sprint plan
• Provide additional reporting as required by clients
• Coordinate team demonstrations of completed work
• Guide teams in release planning and coordination
• Effectively communicates with internal and external clients both verbally and written
• Continue to grow by learning new tools and techniques
• Occasional travel may be required

Requirements:

• Leverage your 3-5 years’ experience being Scrum Master on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of relevant agile metrics and charts (e.g. burndown, velocity, burnup, CFD) and ability to interpret them and provide appropriate guidance and coaching to the team
• Proven analytic and problem-solving skills including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
• Proven verbal and written communication skills to communicate effectively to customers, managers and technical staff
• Ideal candidate has experience working in client-facing roles
• Experience working with JIRA or other equivalent issue/project tracking software and related tool sets
• Experience helping teams form appropriate team agreements
• Experience conducting and leading client facing meetings/workshops, creating and managing expectations, as well as delivering against expectations
• Experience in the Financial, Software, and/or Digital sectors strongly preferred
• Scrum Master Certification preferred
• Experience and/or knowledge with multiple agile methodologies
• Extremely knowledgeable in and personify Scrum and Agile
• Passion and curiosity to thrive in innovative, collaborative, fast paced environment
• Experience guiding team with problem solving, removing barriers and addressing challenges in support of project execution
• Ability to serve as a knowledgeable resource to the organization's management team that provides leadership and direction
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities.