Scrum Master (Hybrid onsite - W2 only)

Xoriant - Irving, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Irving, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Scrum Master will provide hands-on guidance and support to teams, promoting Agile methodologies and increasing team maturity at a sustainable pace. This role involves close collaboration across functions, facilitating Scrum events, and mentoring team members to enhance their effectiveness in Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on team guidance and support through close collaboration across all functions.
• Partner with team members to identify and remove roadblocks through Persona development, story mapping, road mapping, and backlog management.
• Conduct story sizing and task estimation.
• Provide training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Teams, including drafting and maintaining training materials and collecting feedback from training sessions.
• Act as an advisor to teams by leading by example and challenging the status quo.
• Help teams continuously improve by performing ongoing health-checks to enhance their effectiveness.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure that vision, roadmap, and personas are well-defined and understood.
• Mentor Scrum Masters on facilitation and focusing teams on task completion.
• Promote a culture of experimentation and innovation.
• Foster teams' abilities to be self-directed.
• Promote Change Management, including scaling Agile, release planning, and dependency management.
• Conduct sprint events such as planning, stand-ups, refinement, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.

Requirements

• BA/BS or equivalent work experience required.
• Expert practitioner of Scrum and Lean Start Up.
• Proven success coaching teams in adopting Agile methodologies.
• Minimum of 4 years of real-world Scrum coaching experience, guiding at least two organizations through varied challenges of Scrum adoption.
• Minimum of 4 years as a practicing Scrum Master.
• Diverse change management experience across multiple organizations, teams, products, environments, and technologies.
• Experience with approaches for scaling Agile (e.g., SAFe, LeSS).
• Up-to-date expertise in the Agile space through ongoing education in Agile frameworks, training, conference attendance, user group participation, and self-study.
• Working knowledge of Agile tools (e.g., Atlassian tools -- JIRA, Confluence).
• Working knowledge of the fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
• Demonstrated self-growth through continuing education in Agile frameworks, training, conference attendance, user group participation, and self-study.
• Coaching experience at a Fortune 500 organization.
• Scrum Coach Certification (CSC).