Sr. Scrum Master (Hybrid) w/ Dependency
American Cyber Systems - Draper, UT
posted 5 months ago
About the position
The Senior Scrum Master has the primary responsibility of facilitating the formation, learning, and growth of multiple cross-functional delivery teams in developing a Lean/Agile mindset. This role involves adopting and continuously improving practices within the team's context, guiding teams and leaders to enable the effective flow of delivery across the end-to-end value stream. As a servant-leader, the Senior Scrum Master plays a key role in planning, facilitation, supporting teams, removing impediments, providing team coaching and mentorship, visualizing the Lean value stream to optimize for flow, and collaborating with other Lean/Agile practitioners to exchange learnings at scale. In this position, the Senior Scrum Master will facilitate the contextual adoption of the Scrum Framework, which includes daily scrums, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings. Additionally, they will facilitate the adoption of Lean Thinking, focusing on visualization and continuous optimization of delivery flow using the Kanban Method. The role also requires participation in scaled events, such as cross-team planning, delivery synchronization, and systems-level inspect & adapt sessions. The Senior Scrum Master is expected to foster team collaboration and proactive, open communication while encouraging an experimental and fail-fast & learn mindset. They will sustain and promote the usage of information radiators for the teams and the broader organization, collect and share transparent team metrics, and recommend new metrics for the team's context. Furthermore, they will prepare and facilitate quarterly, release, and sprint planning with the product owner and the team, guiding feature and story-level refinement to the Definition of "Ready" in preparation for upcoming sprints. This role requires the ability to engage the organization to remove impediments to the team's performance by working closely with stakeholders, including product owners/managers and leadership. The Senior Scrum Master will also support communication of delivery progress and obstacles with a wide variety of stakeholders, coach product owners/managers to play an active role in stakeholder engagement, and facilitate cross-team orchestration. They will work with the team to co-create and refine team working agreements, definitions of "ready," and definitions of "done," while encouraging brainstorming, creative thinking, and open minds within the team. Ultimately, the Senior Scrum Master will coach the team on Lean, Agile, and Scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement, creating a fun, open, and learning environment.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate contextual adoption of the Scrum Framework, including daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews & retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings.
- Facilitate contextual adoption of Lean Thinking, including visualization and continuous optimization of delivery flow using the Kanban Method.
- Facilitate and participate in scaled events, including cross-team planning, delivery synchronization, and systems-level inspect & adapt.
- Foster team collaboration and proactive, open communication.
- Encourage an experimental and fail-fast & learn mindset.
- Sustain and promote usage of information radiators for the teams and broader organization.
- Collect and share transparent team metrics with teams, recommend new metrics for the team's context, and foster continuous improvement conversations using metrics.
- Prepare and facilitate quarterly, release, and sprint planning with the product owner and the team.
- Guide Feature and Story-level refinement to the Definition of 'Ready' in preparation for the next quarter and upcoming sprints.
- Work with the team and Product Owner/Managers to maintain a healthy backlog and rolling short and mid-term planning for upcoming releases.
- Engage the organization to remove impediments to the team's ability to perform by working closely with the team and stakeholders, including product owners/managers, leadership, and other teams.
- Support communication of delivery progress and obstacles with a wide variety of stakeholders; coach product owners/managers to play an active role in stakeholder engagement.
- Facilitate cross-team orchestration, tracking and following up with internal and external stakeholders.
- Work with the team to co-create and refine team working agreements, definitions of 'ready', and definitions of 'done'.
- Encourage brainstorming, creative thinking, open minds, equal voice, and perspective sharing.
- Coaches the team on Lean, Agile, and Scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement.
- Create a fun, open, and learning environment, experimenting with various methods to improve and grow.
Requirements
- BA/BS degree in related field and 4 years of related experience; master's with 2 years' experience; or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
- 4 years' experience applying both the Scrum Framework and Kanban Method in growing high performing teams as a fulltime practitioner.
- Experience as a Scrum Master and/or Kanban Coach at an organization that is committed to Lean-Agile as its core approach for delivering business value.
- Experience working with Lean/Agile teams in the context of cloud infrastructure and DevOps.
- Experience working with teams applying test automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery capabilities to achieve delivery speed and operational stability.
- Experience using Lean/Agile collaboration tools like Rally, VersionOne, Jira.
Nice-to-haves
- Rally (Nice to have)
- Certifications (Anyone is a big plus): SaFE Scrum, ACSM, Scrum.Org
Benefits
- Medical & pharmacy coverage
- Dental/vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Health saving account (HSA)
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Life Insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Short term and Long term Disability
- Accident & Critical illness coverage
- Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection
- Sick time
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
