Senior Specialist, Scrum Master

Duties And Responsibilities

• Facilitate daily stand-up, release and iteration planning, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Guide team in story pointing and work effort estimates.
• Support product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.
• Partner with project management to develop and track project risks and delivery output and timelines.
• Drive team iteration execution and communicate with management and stakeholders.
• Lead multi-team sprint review preparation and presentation.
• Conduct post-mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity.
• Lead team effort in relentless improvement.
• Proactively identify and eliminate impediments.
• Present high level project readouts for program leadership and senior management.
• Leads and supports SAFe implementation by driving team readiness and effective execution of quarterly PI Planning events.

Skills And Experience

• 5+ Years of experience leading sprints as a Scrum Master.
• BA/BS degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• Scrum Master or Scrum Coaching certifications preferred.
• Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• High level of proficiency in JIRA and Confluence.
• Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment.
• Effective leader with a natural ability to influence and motivate teams.
• Proven understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs.
• Passionate commitment to delivering products on time.
• Comfortable presenting project readouts and updates to a variety of stakeholder audiences.
• Deep understanding of agile metrics (burndown metrics, velocity, KPI’s, etc.) to analyze and improve.
• Demonstrates the ability to understand and effectively represent both business and technology perspectives.
• Excellent communication skills in person, over the phone, and through email.

Compensation

We offer a competitive compensation package commensurate with experience including full benefits offering and PTO. Minimum salary of $95,000 plus bonus opportunities and other incentives.