Brmi - Winchester, VA
posted 4 months ago
BRMi is seeking a Scrum Master to support our large financial enterprise client. The Scrum Master plays a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of initiatives by closely collaborating with the Product Owner to prioritize tasks and lead the delivery of capabilities. This position involves removing impediments, facilitating team meetings and events, and fostering an environment that promotes high performance. The Scrum Master is responsible for managing a continuous workflow within their team, advocating for and coaching team members on lean, agile, and scrum practices. This role requires participation in complex and essential projects, working under minimal supervision and with significant latitude for independent judgment. The Scrum Master is accountable for the completion of assigned deliverables and milestones, serving as both an individual contributor and a mentor to junior staff. This is considered a senior-level position, requiring a high level of skill and proficiency in the discipline. The Scrum Master is expected to exhibit behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader, helping the team embrace SAFe core values and implement SAFe practices. They will support the team in adhering to Scrum rules, eliminate impediments, and lead efforts for continuous improvement and heightened efficiency. The Scrum Master ensures that the technology and service delivery roadmap align with the solution strategy and are sustainable to meet the needs of various solutions being delivered on the product. They facilitate the team's progress toward goals, utilizing the current Program Increment (PI) Objectives as Iteration Goals, and ensure that goals, scope, and product backlog items are well understood by team members. Collaboration is key in this role, as the Scrum Master works with the Product Owner, customers, and developers to identify and clarify the scope of problems and issues in terms of business and systems requirements. They support the team's efforts to improve communications and relationships with other delivery teams, representing the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) to enhance engagement opportunities and program effectiveness. The Scrum Master is also tasked with challenging old norms of development to improve performance in quality, predictability, flow, and velocity, while supporting software development teams in applying the Scrum framework. Other duties may be assigned as necessary.