Job Description

Role: Scrum Master

Location: Remote

Contract

Key Accountabilities:

• Guides team through sprint planning and execution
• Facilitates scrum ceremonies (Planning, Retrospective, Demo, Pre-planning, Stand-ups, Affinity sizing etc.)
• Supports Product Owner in creation, refinement, prioritization of the backlog elements and release planning
• Participates in scrum-of-scrums and discusses internal dependencies
• Recognizes, raises, and removes impediments proactively that prevent team from achieving sprint goals
• Drives Continuous improvement of team to ensure that teams is always exploring on how to deliver value earlier and more often with higher quality
• Prioritizes workload and ensures appropriate sizing and standardization of user stories
• Determines the workload for the team and proactively manages the timeline and backlog on an ongoing basis
• Assesses the maturity of the scrum teams and helps the team mature at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable
• Provides agile team start-up coaching and advises team members on enterprise Agile practices
• Tailors process for efficiency based on empirical learnings
• In addition to traditional activities, the Scrum Master will also spend approximately 20% of their time performing project administrative activities including, but not limited to:
• Reporting on overall delivery status to program leadership and various stakeholders
• Maintaining cost plan and financial details
• Ensuring monthly estimates of costs, schedule, scope and resource requirements are agreed and maintained

Key Qualifications and Experiences:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years relevant IT and Scrum Master experience
• Demonstrated success in a scrum master role for 3+ years for a software development team
• Proven skill in facilitation, continuous improvement, empowerment, transparency and servant leadership
• Has relevant business and application domain knowledge in their expected area (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, HR/Legal, Marketing, Sales).
• Experience with Clarity or other project management suites is required
• Experience with various Agile approaches Kanban, Scrum, XP, etc.
• Experience with Jira, ADO or other relevant agile tools is preferred
• Knowledge and experience with multiple Agile techniques, User Stories, TDD, DevOps/Continuous Integration, etc.
• Ability to work in a virtual team which may work across distance (remote), cultures and time zones

• Verbal and written fluency in English is mandatory

Key Skills:

Scrum Master, project management, Jira, ADO, TDD, DevOps/Continuous Integration

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