Senior Scrum Master
Location
United States
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
Not specified
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Role Description
- Act as the Scrum Master for multiple product teams using an agile methodology in the execution of software development projects.
- Organize each team’s product backlog to ensure product teams and management have a clear view of progress and priorities.
- Facilitate product teams in the review, estimation, and planning of software development efforts for the upcoming quarter.
- Collaborate with the product owner and the core team to prioritize work based on company goals and objectives.
- Organize sprint planning meetings to review the product backlog, ensure stories have adequate detail, and identify user stories to be included in upcoming sprints.
- Conduct sprint review meetings to review the scope and functionality delivered in the previous sprint.
- Organize sprint retrospectives to document lessons learned and implement process improvements. Ensure the team abides by the scrum rules and guidelines.
- Hold daily scrum meetings to allow each team to synchronize their work and communicate issues and roadblocks to the product owner.
- Empower each product team and remove roadblocks to ensure continuous progress.
- Assist product owners in maintaining product backlogs by facilitating backlog grooming sessions.
- Work effectively as part of the scrum team to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines.
- Establish a sense of urgency to complete tasks in a timely, cost-effective manner with top quality.
- Maintain an exceptional level of customer focus centered on integrity and transparency.
- Track metrics for each scrum team and make them available in company tools for reporting.
- Actively listen and respond to the needs of the product teams and customers in a manner that provides value and generates significant customer satisfaction.
Qualifications
- Recent, significant experience as scrum master facilitating multiple scrum teams working on enterprise software projects across business areas.
- Experience working with dynamic, highly collaborative teams, requiring close consultation and coordination.
- Demonstrated leadership skills.
- Expert knowledge of Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Office applications.
- Drive for results - Comfortable leading meetings, focusing team members on the task at hand and facilitating groups to reach consensus in a timely manner.
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree.
Requirements
- Advanced Degree (preferred).
- Certified SCRUM Master and/or PMP (preferred).
- Familiar with enterprise Java, .NET, Oracle, MS SQL (preferred).
- Experience within utilities, pharma, banking, finance, insurance, or other highly transactional systems environment that produces very large amounts of data (preferred).
Job Requirements
- Recent, significant experience as scrum master facilitating multiple scrum teams working on enterprise software projects across business areas.
- Experience working with dynamic, highly collaborative teams, requiring close consultation and coordination.
- Demonstrated leadership skills.
- Expert knowledge of Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Office applications.
- Drive for results - Comfortable leading meetings, focusing team members on the task at hand and facilitating groups to reach consensus in a timely manner.
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree.
- Advanced Degree (preferred).
- Certified SCRUM Master and/or PMP (preferred).
- Familiar with enterprise Java, .NET, Oracle, MS SQL (preferred).
- Experience within utilities, pharma, banking, finance, insurance, or other highly transactional systems environment that produces very large amounts of data (preferred).
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