Scrum Master

The Judge Group - Cincinnati, OH

Full-time - Mid Level

Cincinnati, OH

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Scrum Master is a servant leader and coach for a cross-functional agile team, focusing on the Security, Data, and Networking domains related to cloud transformation. This role involves guiding and facilitating a Scrum or Kanban team in a fast-paced environment, ensuring adherence to agile practices and the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC). The Scrum Master is responsible for removing impediments, fostering a high-performing team, and promoting continuous improvement to ensure quality and timely delivery of business-oriented solutions.

Responsibilities

• Guide, coach and motivate the team with the goal of increasing productivity
• Organize and lead Scrum ceremonies
• Oversee and manage scope, timeline, quality, goals and deliverables that support business goals
• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged
• Facilitate discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Prepare and present reports on the progress and success
• Coordinate activities with other teams across the program
• Partner with and support the Product Owner
• Participate in the Scrum of Scrums and partner with other Scrum Masters
• Coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Organize and facilitate planning and coordination including release / Potentially Shippable Increments planning, iteration planning, daily stand-ups, iteration review/demos, and retrospectives
• Ensure teams are held accountable to agile SDLC tenants and their internal working agreements
• Promote and demonstrate core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility
• Ensure the team is tracking and communicating team progress and metrics to the appropriate resources
• Facilitate and enable an environment of collaboration and creativity
• Support and empower the team to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
• Empower the team to self-organize around achieving their commitments
• Identify and remove any impediments/distractions that interfere with the team's ability to deliver against their commitments
• Challenge and enable the team to continuously improve through intentional and data driven inspect and adapt cycles (retrospectives)

Requirements

• Scrum master experience in a complex large-scale enterprise
• Experience in an agile environment in other roles such as quality assurance, development, product owner, or as an agile coach
• Proven knowledge and experience with agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
• Demonstrated leadership ability to coach and mentor the team to reach their highest potential
• Excellent team player and team builder
• Ability to work with all levels of the organization
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work collaboratively with diverse personality types
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level and communicate agile methodologies within the organization
• Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
• Strong ability to manage multiple agile teams and ensure a proper balance between PMO, business and technology teams and management
• Self-motivated, creative, and efficient in proposing solutions to complex problems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail