Scrum Master
Contract | BizTek People, Inc. | United States
Posted On 05/24/2021
Job Information
Job Opening ID 7419
Language Skills English
Location Beaverton, Oregon
Technology
City Beaverton
State/Province Oregon
97006
Job Description
Overview As the Scrum Master, you will lead self-organizing, self-managing teams in applying and optimizing Agile practices to maximize team performance and effectiveness.
In this role, you will:
Posted On 05/24/2021
Job Information
Job Opening ID 7419
Language Skills English
Location Beaverton, Oregon
Technology
City Beaverton
State/Province Oregon
97006
Job Description
Overview As the Scrum Master, you will lead self-organizing, self-managing teams in applying and optimizing Agile practices to maximize team performance and effectiveness.
In this role, you will:
- Support the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its daily and iteration objectives
- Support the teams focus on delivery of high quality stories on a predictable, sustainable cadence
- Facilitate the teams assessing and planning for risk
- Ensure agreed upon Agile methodology principles and practices are understood and enacted.
- Coach Agile team in self-organization and cross-functionality and promote Agile mindset
- Provide visibility to impediments to the Agile Team's progress that the team cannot remove themselves
- Facilitate the team's relationship with outside stakeholders
- Facilitate conversations between Product Owner and team in regard to rebalancing and reprioritizing work within a sprint
- Ensure Product Owner has backlog prioritized for each iteration
- Protect the team from interruptions and distractions to clear a path for throughput
- Facilitate ceremonies/team meetings and ensure time-boxed events stay within their allotted time
- Continuously learn new approaches to facilitation, Agile best practices and how to improve team dynamics
- Foster a positive environment for the Agile team to continually improve and learn
- Drive cross Capability coordination and scheduling with other Scrum Masters
- Coordinate with other Scrum Masters, the System Team, and Shared Resources during ART/Cross-train PI Planning and Release Planning Meetings to remove issues and raise risks, as appropriate
- Track and utilize agreed upon metrics to drive meaningful conversations and improvement opportunities
- Deep understanding of Agile development frameworks, specifically SAFe, Scrum and Kanban
- Demonstrated understanding of technology systems and the Technology ecosystem
- Demonstrated ability to understand business needs
- Proven ability to pull together individuals of varying technical and business abilities with different goals and facilitate productive discussion and action.
- Strong written and verbal communication, conflict resolution, and servant leadership skills
- Demonstrated understanding and reinforcement of the value of Agile mindset and the required iteration events
- Excellent facilitation skills and techniques
- Bachelors' degree in Business, Psychology, Anthropology, or Organizational Development with 2 years' additional relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree
- 3-5 years hands-on Scrum Master/Coach experience in advanced, large-scale Agile setting
- Certified Scrum Master and other Scrum certification desired
- SAFe certification preferred
- Experience working with Jira or similar tool, building summary views, using agile planning boards, setting up dashboards preferred
You need to sign in or create an account to save a job.
Get job alerts
Create a job alert and receive personalized job recommendations straight to your inbox.
Create alert