Scrum Master Senior

Description Summary

The Scrum Master Senior - Technical Project Manager is responsible for a team's collaboration, transparency, and delivering product releases while meeting quality standards and milestones. Identifies and procures all necessary resources to meet project specifications and facilitates Agile rituals and provides sprint-level reporting.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Facilitates seamless collaboration and maximizes team performance by driving continuous improvement within assigned technical and non-technical teams.
• Ensures rapid and timely delivery of business value streams and achievement of goals.
• Mentors and coaches teams (including the Product Owner) in Agile practices and mindset.
• Fosters a growth mindset and spirit of continuous improvement and learning.
• Removes impediments to team progress whether internal to the team or organizational in nature. Escalates impediments to facilitate rapid resolution.
• Supports and educates product owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making.
• Ensures effective communication within and across teams.
• Influences and facilitates the empowerment of a self-organizing team.
• Schedules and facilitates cross-functional meetings.
• Ensures appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports effectively provide transparency on team’s progress and productivity.
• Performs risk, issue, and dependency management for their team.
• Ensures release management practices align to enterprise standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 5+ years of related experience including Agile experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master.
• Knowledge of project management fundamentals.
• Previous scrum master experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration or related discipline with an information technology or equivalent and extensive related IT Technical or Customer Support experience.
• Two or more years of project management, or business requirements analysis.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
• Experience with CONFLUENCE; and GHERKIN knowledgeable.
• A high degree of professional confidence and credibility with the presence and communication skills to represent IT-related concepts effectively.
• Adaptability; self-starter; team player; quality minded; focused; committed; able to work independently.