Scrum Master Sr

$197,100 - $197,100/Yr

Locumsmart - Durham, NC

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Durham, NC

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Scrum Master at Locumsmart, you will be responsible for applying and optimizing agile practices to enhance team performance and effectiveness. This role involves facilitating scrum ceremonies, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring that the team is self-organized and high-performing. You will work closely with Product Owners and Managers to guide the team through the Software Development Lifecycle, ensuring successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies including standup, planning, review/demo, grooming, and retrospectives.
• Facilitate continuous improvement opportunities that inspire teams to be self-organized and high performing.
• Create visibility into each sprint through the use of velocity, burn down charts, and committed vs. completed metrics.
• Proactively identify and remove blockers that impede the team's progress.
• Demonstrate a robust understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle to guide the team through each phase seamlessly.

Requirements

• In-depth understanding of agile methodologies and their effective application to drive team success.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for facilitating collaboration across diverse team priorities and capabilities.
• Strong conflict resolution, coaching, mentoring, and servant leadership skills.
• Ability to work with team members to size stories, plan, and forecast using proper estimating techniques.
• Experience working with Product Owners and Product Managers to write or validate user stories to ensure they meet the definition of ready.
• Exceptional organizational and facilitation skills to drive efficiency in team processes.
• Proficient in JIRA, Confluence, Google Workplace Suite, and MS Office, Figma.

Nice-to-haves

• Scrum Master certification or PM certification preferred.
• Ability to influence without authority and build trust at all levels with a keen sense of self-awareness.
• Strong skills in problem solving, collaboration, reasoning, negotiation, decision making, and consensus-building.
• Demonstrate a high level of dependability in all aspects of the job; foster an environment that is relationship and customer focused.

Benefits

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Traditional healthcare benefits including medical and dental coverage
• Onsite health centers and corporate wellness programs
• Free behavioral health appointments
• Flexible work schedules including work-from-home options
• Recognition programs with rewards including trips, cash, and paid time off
• Family-friendly benefits including paid parental leave, fertility coverage, adoption assistance, and marriage counseling
• Tailored training resources including free LinkedIn learning courses
• Volunteer time off and employee-driven matching grants
• Tuition reimbursement programs