Scrum Master - AppDev

$65,000 - $110,000/Yr

Shi International Ltd - Franklin Township, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Franklin Township, NJ

5,001-10,000 employees

Furniture, Home Furnishings, Electronics, and Appliance Retailers

About the position

The Scrum Master at SHI is responsible for the adoption and implementation of Scrum methodology within the Information Technology department. This role involves coordinating multiple Scrum teams to enhance applications and services while collaborating with the Agile Coach to guide software development practices. The Scrum Master acts as a bridge between development teams, product owners, and stakeholders, ensuring optimal performance and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Scrum team coach by identifying needs and implementing methods to strengthen the team's understanding of Scrum concepts and principles
• Ensure the team understands and appropriately applies Agile values and principles
• Ensure the team effectively achieves Sprint goals
• Organize and facilitate valuable Scrum events
• Create an environment of relentless, continuous improvement and applied learnings
• Assist Product Owner with maintaining the product backlog while managing trade-offs between short-term and long-term benefits of the solution, product, and business value
• Coach and mentor development teams to be self-organized and effective
• Proactively manage dependencies across teams and processes
• Assist the team with Sprint commitments, risk management, and impediment resolution
• Track and communicate the team's progress regarding Capacity, Velocity, Sprint, and Release
• Accountable for improving the team's quality and outcomes

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field - or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years' IT or related business experience
• Minimum of 3 years' experience working in a Scrum environment
• Minimum of 3 years' experience working with Agile frameworks (Scrum and Kanban) and Agile toolsets (Atlassian, Azure)
• Minimum of 2 years' experience as a Scrum Master working with 2 or more software development teams
• Knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Working knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Proficiency in MS office tools - Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Ability to effectively communicate with people in varying job roles including developers, analysts, product owners, application users, and company leadership
• Strong follow-up skills and experience holding project teams accountable to quality
• Strong understanding of the dynamics of cross-functional teams with the ability to creatively problem solve
• Strong time management and organization skills
• Ability to effectively facilitate trainings and workshops
• Ability to understand and articulate strategic and product goals and the team's progress towards them
• Ability to communicate strategic, product, and sprint objectives and their respective alignment, with minimal supervision
• Willingness to challenge the team

Nice-to-haves

• Advance Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM II)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401K
• Flexible spending account