Staff Scrum Master

Job Description Summary

As a Staff Agile Scrum Master, you will work with technical leadership and their teams and coach them on an approach to incubate and accelerate the adoption of new technology. You will lead and facilitate workshops to help the software development teams understand their product portfolio as well as coach and mentor them through a framework to accelerate digital product development.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Anchor and effectively apply the Agile Manifesto, SAFe core values, Lean-Agile mindset and SAFe principles to lead multiple high-performing, cross-functional agile scrum/Kanban teams
• Ensures development stories, acceptance criteria, assumptions, and all related documentation are timely and complete, supporting development, testing, and user acceptance activities.
• Assisting product owner to create roadmaps and their dissemination to the team(s), while leading, managing, tracking, and communicating the execution of the plans and ensure that projects are completed on time.
• Communicate and facilitate effectively across diverse audiences within and outside of the Sprint Team (key stakeholders, executives).
• Work with cross-functional teams (not limited to - architects, application engineers, UX designers, and outsourced vendors) to create a holistic roadmap and planning for product delivery
• Managing all Scrum: Daily Standups, Backlog maintenance and Grooming, Sprint Planning and Review, Release Planning, Demos & Retrospectives
• Represent teams in Scrum of Scrums in resolving inter- team dependencies.
• Manage Sprints - keeping order, process, delivery, priorities accurate and on time
• Keep scrum team focused on concrete priorities while keeping outside influences from disrupting the Scrum team and actively identify and remove waste and distractions
• Advocate for autonomous, self-organizing, empowered, and continuously improving teams.
• Continuously strives to coach team and product owner to deliver higher customer satisfaction, improved velocity and delivery predictability, better system performance and enhanced ability to innovate, scale and meet requirements.
• Facilitate regular meetings with all relevant stake holders and project team to discuss/share status and to track progress & health of the project.
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• Over all 7 Years in experience with 4 + Years as Scrum Master
• Having Dev/ QA experience prior becoming a Scrum Master is a MUST
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred
• Experience in leading Agile Team(s) in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) that involve Cross functional team members will be added advantage.
• Strong business acumen and superior decision-making skills.
• Strong cross-functional team player with the ability to work seamlessly.
• Hands on, self-motivated professional style with the ability to effectively prioritize multiple initiatives.
• Ability to understand technical requirements of projects and effectively manage resources, vendors and test efforts.
• Rally/JIRA/Confluence experience.