21 Jan
Scrum Master - Remote
Vacancy expired!
- Guides and coaches the squad on how to effectively apply Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
- Coaches the squad in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
- Coordinates and collaborates with squad, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making in support of cross functional, multi-tiered initiatives.
- Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
- Facilitates and supports all squad events (e.g., Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective)
- Manages each project's scope and timeline
- Facilitates internal communication and effective collaboration.
- Acts as point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
- Works with product owners to prioritize backlogs and new requests
- Resolves conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
- Ensures deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
- Guides development teams to higher scrum maturity
- Shields team from external influences not relevant to current sprint work
- Experience in a scrum master role
- Familiarity in Technology Infrastructure domain is a must
- Scrum Master Certification a plus
- Experience working with globally distributed teams
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment where production releases occur in 2-4-week durations
- Ability to interpret burn down charts, SCRUM & Kanban boards to know the teams progress
- Ability to identify RISKS or ISSUES during the sprint and help team in resolution of issues which impede progress.
- Good exposure on sizing techniques used in agile process viz.
- Story Points Exposure using Agile Project Management tools such as JIRA
- Familiar with a wide array of Agile methodologies and frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, LeSS, etc.)
- Experience motivating and mentoring staff and team members to change how they envisage and deliver their work
- Able to show success with improving team dynamics by helping them to autonomously and holistically identify and prioritize improvements and obstacles and to carry out improvement actions.
- Able to show experience in helping unlock potential and fulfil talent, using active listening, effective questioning, empathy and communication
- Familiar with Agile tools that support continuous predictable flow
- Experience interacting with business project sponsor, business subject matter experts and other key stakeholders for large organizational projects
- Able to influence and build relationships at all levels of staff
- Able to assess and coach improvement of agile maturity for individuals and teams
- The ability to multi-task on various projects/efforts and support items
- Excellent communication, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills
Vacancy expired!