Scrum Master - PV w2

Job Summary

Works as a servant leader and coach to enable teams to self-organize, self-manage and deliver on their goals by following Lean-Agile practices. Coaches the organization in maturing the SAFe/Agile practices at both the team and enterprise level.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Performs as a Scrum Master for 2-3 teams.
• Performs assessments at the team or train level.
• Led, develops or improves internal training courses.
• Enables cross communication between agile teams by participating in, organizing, and facilitating the coach sync meetings.
• Maintains and creates relevant metrics to gauge team progress.
• Contributes to writing SM CoP yearly objectives.
• Demonstrates mastery of servant leadership (Facilitation, Coaching, Continuous Improvement).
• Focuses on improving team dynamics and performance.
• Helps the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth.
• Escalates problems to management where necessary, but only after internal team processes have failed to resolve the issue; helps individuals and teams through personnel changes.
• Facilitates the scrum ceremonies, removes impediments, acts as a buffer for the team from all outside distractions, and ensures that scrum rules are followed.
• Aids the team in staying accountable to their commitments consistently.
• Prepares the team(s) for PI Planning events by calculating capacity and coaching best practices for WSJF (weighted shortest job first).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems.
• Five years of information technology experience.
• Five years of work experience leading projects/developing or leading teams.
• Three of those years must have been as a Scrum Master.
• SP, SSM/CSM, SPC, and SASM certification preferred.