Job Title: Scrum Master –C12/AVP
The Role
The Scrum Master plays a meaningful role in delivering high-quality modern software as part of a cross-functional Agile Scrum Team. This role will be accountable for acting as a servant leader to the Scrum Team, acting to surface and resolve team-level sprint risks and roadblocks while facilitating Scrum ceremonies. This role will also act as a change agent, evangelizing the tents of Agile and Scrum across Global Functions Technology.
Responsibilities
Act as a Change Agent with a passion for supporting teams to transform their behaviors toward an agile environment
Facilitate Scrum processes and events enabling team maturity
Leverageperformance data to drive outcomes and continuous improvement
Create an agile mindset with focus on agile value and principles leading with transparency, inspection, and adaptation resulting in delivery of high value increments which meet the Definition of Done
Enable teams through servant leadership skills to develop sprint goals, robust product backlogs, acceptance criteria, definitions of done / ready
Facilitate program level agile ceremonies to include dependency mapping, release planning and scope alignment across Product teams
Enable the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress
Facilitate communication and partnership inside and outside the team to include stakeholder engagement
Enables empirical product planning for a complex environment
Protect the team from distractions allowing for focus to meet sprint and program commitments
Promote self-organization and cross-functionality of the team coaching each role to enable high performance of the team
Leads, trains, and coaches the organization in its agile adoption
Qualifications
Mindset consistent with Scrum core values: openness, courage, respect, focus and commitment
Demonstrated understanding of lean agile values and principles including the 3-5-3 structure of scrum
4+ years working in an agile environment as a development team member, Scrum Master or Product Owner
3+ years' experience in managing agile & lean values and standards.
3+ years' experience in the Scrum Master or Agile Coach role of distributed Agile team, tech domain preferred
Expert in facilitation, problem solving and influencing outcomes
Strong knowledge of best practices in value driven development (requirements management, prototyping, hypothesis driven development, usability testing).
Expert knowledge of agile tool suites including Atlassian, Agility Health Radar, MS Teams or similar agile management tooling
Scrum Master and Agile Certifications
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with large-scale enterprise agile transformation with knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or other scaling frameworks
Strong knowledge of technical engineering best practices including test driven development, continuous integration, DevOps.
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
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