SR. SCRUM MASTER - SALESFORCE

Liberty It Solutions

Full-time - Senior

Remote

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Scrum Master plays a crucial role in fostering a positive and innovative culture within the department, emphasizing trust and empathy. This position is responsible for orchestrating program-level continuous agile improvement and adapting industry-standard frameworks. The Senior Scrum Master embodies the five Scrum values and is key to coaching teams on Agile practices, facilitating planning sessions, and promoting a learning culture.

Responsibilities

• Coach one or more teams on applying Agile practices and values.
• Assess the current organization and delivery environment and recommend optimal Agile practices.
• Train, coach and mentor other Scrum Masters.
• Facilitate planning sessions, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
• Work with multiple teams and all levels of the organization to coach Agile principles and practices to influence change from the top-down as well as bottom-up.
• Promote opportunities across the organization to implement and maintain Agile processes that deliver desired outcomes in support of teams and the organization.
• Facilitate continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams.
• Foster team responsibility, accountability, transparency, and self-organization.
• Leverage coaching skills to help teams solve their own problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
• CSM certification required
• 5 or more years of experience as a Scrum Master in a software development environment, or 8 years of experience in an Agile environment
• Demonstrated conflict-resolution skills
• Demonstrated ability to form positive working relationships with customers, peers, and team members
• Excellent communication skills including written, verbal, and listening
• Knowledge and use of industry-standard project methods, tools, and techniques (burndown, velocity charts, metrics, etc.)
• Proficient in MS Office applications
• Experience with online collaboration tools (MS Teams, Zoom, etc.)
• Demonstrated problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to reprioritize and multitask in a dynamic environment
• Ability to obtain a clearance with the U.S. Government

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with techniques used to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (examples: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs)
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, XP
• Experience with Agile techniques including: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, and Agile Games
• Experience using Atlassian tools
• Experience with Salesforce Platform

Benefits

• Remote work allowed