Scrum Master II

About the position

The Scrum Master has primary responsibility of facilitating the learning and growth of one or more Agile teams in developing a lean-Agile mindset, improving practices and guiding them to more predictable delivery. The Scrum Master plays a role in facilitating Agile ceremonies and planning of releases, removing impediments, providing guidance, and supporting Agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Works with Product Owners and team members to learn and practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices.
• Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement.
• Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams.
• Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination.
• Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams.
• Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management.
• Teaches new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process.
• Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices.
• Mentors Product Owners and team members in agile practices and continuous improvement.
• Removes impediments to the team’s ability to perform.
• Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions.
• Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution.
• Facilitates team development, mediates conflicts protecting the team and encourages healthy team dynamics.
• Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization.
• Leverages coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems.
• Introduces and encourages team to explore healthy Agile development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery.
• Teaches and encourages a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability.
• Helps the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements.
• Promotes transparency through healthy communications and data integrity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree + 2 years relevant experience.
• 2 – 4 years of working experience as a dedicated Scrum Master.
• Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), or Kanban.
• Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe.
• Scrum Master certification or equivalent certified professional.
• Coaches the lean-Agile mindset.
• Facilitates backlog management and refinement.
• Facilitates transparency of metrics, impediment removal, collaboration, and coordination.
• Facilitates continuous improvement.
• Must live within a commutable distance to the office.

Benefits

• Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties.
• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
• Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision).
• Retirement planning (401(k)).
• Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).