Senior Scrum Master

Corptax - Buffalo Grove, IL

Full-time - Senior

Buffalo Grove, IL

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Senior Scrum Master plays a crucial role in facilitating Agile practices within the organization, ensuring transparency and visibility of team progress, and supporting Agile transformation initiatives. This position is responsible for organizing Scrum ceremonies, tracking team performance, and removing obstacles to enhance team productivity. The Senior Scrum Master also contributes to the development of Agile training programs and release management processes, making recommendations for improvements in project management practices.

Responsibilities

• Foster transparency and visibility, ensuring a team's progress, obstacles, and successes are visible to all stakeholders.
• Help the organization reap the benefits of Agile at scale.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, lessons learned, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint-release progress.
• Ensure development teams practice core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Assist the team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Assist with backlog maintenance as needed.
• Communicate project status to stakeholders.
• Gain and maintain a detailed understanding of business goals and platform capabilities.
• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Create and maintain process documentation.
• Remove blockers to team progress and help the team make improvements to avoid similar blockers in the future.
• Support transformation initiatives during planning and implementation phases.
• Lead working groups to meet transformation deliverables and track progress and action items.
• Support the development of a leadership engagement strategy as roles of managers and executives change.
• Make recommendations regarding processes to adapt, change, or discard relating to project and portfolio management.
• Assist with the development of custom Agile training for Scrum teams, product owners, and Scrum masters.
• Aid in creating an internal coaching program for potential Agile coaches.
• Develop standards, processes, and controls for configuration and release activities.
• Establish and facilitate release team meetings, coordinate issues, and maintain release documentation.

Requirements

• An undergraduate degree in areas related to management information systems or business administration.
• CSM or CSP certification desired.
• At least five years of previous Agile or Scrum project management experience within a software development environment.
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle, configuration, and change control management.
• Strong organizational and cross-team communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.