Scrum Master /Team Coach

About the role

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. This SM will be capable of leading software development and product teams as well as experience with Kanban. This person will need to be an excellent communicator, above all else.

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way. We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years! FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused. We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Responsibilities

• Performs as a Scrum Master for 2-3 teams.
• Performs assessments at the team or train level.
• Leads, 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 and drive improvements.
• 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.
• Assists 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).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems.
• Five years of information technology experience.
• Five years' 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.

Skills

• Ability to manage large and complex projects.
• Ability to help teams write user stories/epics, identify dependencies, and design optimal solutions.
• Ability to establish immediate credibility with business stakeholders, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence.
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills.
• Understanding of common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, iterative development practices.
• Knowledge and/or experience with ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing.
• Experience with Kanban.
• Experience leading software development and product teams.

Benefits

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for