Senior Scrum Master

Job Description Summary

In this role, you will be working closely with software development scrum teams to help guide them in Agile/Scrum practices. The Scrum Master does everything possible as a servant-leader to help the team perform at its highest level. This involves removing any impediments to progress, facilitating meetings, training in advanced concepts, and working with the product owner to make sure the product backlog is in good shape and ready for the next sprint.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Coach teams on Agile and Scrum practices to improve software delivery
• Remove obstacles that are impeding the team's progress
• Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity
• Schedule and facilitate Scrum ceremonies
• Help the development team reach consensus on what can be achieved during a specific time period
• Protect the development team from outside distractions
• Work with product owners and product managers to make sure the team is working on the right priorities
• Keep up to date with the latest in agile/scrum practices, including scaling, and bring that information to the team to be implemented
• Reporting out team metrics to leadership and stakeholders

• Must be Scrum certified
• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least (5) years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques in the Scrum approach (example: numerous burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
• Strong communication skills
• Strong coaching abilities
• Strong conflict resolution skills

• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least (5) years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Awareness and experience with a wide variety of Agile practices: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, etc.
• Understanding/experience of the Power industry
• Knowledge of Scaled Agile frameworks
• Experience working with multiple teams simultaneously
• Driven by a clear focus on the Manifesto and the Principles
• Experience recognizing and dealing with antipatterns
• Comfortable with challenging the status quo to deliver business value outcomes over just managing output
• Familiarity with Microservices and modern software architectures
• Understands what it means to have an empowered team and has experience coaching towards that
• Expert at creating backlogs including writing, prioritizing, estimating, and sizing user-centered stories
• Story mapping experience
• Experience with Release Planning