Senior Scrum Master

About the role

The Senior Scrum Master provides leadership, guidance, and coaching to their teams. Responsible for facilitating a cross-functional, agile, collaborative team in iterative technology development. Provides leadership, guidance, and coaching to other Scrum Masters.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage detailed project plans and manage all implementation processes, including scope, schedule, budget/resource allocation, progress tracking, monitoring change control process, testing, documentation, training, and on-time delivery
• Remove impediments that hinder project progress
• Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and iteration meetings
• Monitor the progress of the sprint
• Help teams estimate iteration deliverables
• Manage development tracking system to include product and sprint backlogs
• Promote continuous communication
• Monitor and help improve team dynamics
• Motivate and act as the glue that holds the team together
• Subject Matter Expert for agile methodologies and practices
• Act as a Release Manager for projects involving multiple Scrum teams; manage dependencies between assigned Scrum team and third parties or between assigned Scrum team and other Scrum teams
• Generate process reports; maintain relevant metrics that will allow teams and management to evaluate how the project is progressing
• Partner with the product owner for release planning and backlog maintenance
• Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values; drive best practices in the use of the Agile methodology; establish and manage Agile governance structures, when necessary

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I), preferred (CSP, PSM II)
• 4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, project manager, or technical lead within a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Experience applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous burndown techniques, numerous retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
• Creativity, flexibility, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to develop a positive working relationship with peers and management
• Strong business aptitude, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Proven ability to navigate complex situations through the organizational landscape and with multiple stakeholders
• Experience with other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Ability to regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of his/her job duties
• For roles that are remote (i.e., Work From Home (WFM)) or hybrid (i.e., partial onsite at a VSP location and WFM), must demonstrate a high level of engagement in virtual environments, including maintaining camera presence during meetings to support effective communication and team alignment

Preferred Skills

• Experience working with DevSecOps and Infrastructure teams
• Experience in Project Management and AI
• Prior experience working on both development & infrastructure projects in both an Agile & PM/Waterfall approach

Pay

Salary Ranges: $63,000.00 - $108,675.00