Scrum Master

Scrum Master - Intermediate

Need only local to Houston, TX

Oil & Gas mandatory

Description:

Scrum Master for a Houston-based team supporting windows active directory, PKI certificate servers, and other elements of the Client tier 0 security environment.

Daily Responsibilities:

• Encourages team to make and meet execution commitments and removes impediments to the team.
• Encourages the team to establish and adhere to quality standards.
• Facilitates team ceremonies – Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospectives to guide work execution & Continuous Improvement.
• Implements effective backlog management;
  Keep the status of all work up to date in the backlog through backlog grooming in order to generate standard metrics to improve team performance.
• Collaborates with the Staff Development Manager, Product Owner, System Architect and Delivery Team to establish and update Working Agreements on execution plans, priorities, capacity, definition of ready, definition of done.
• Collaborates with Release Train Engineer in Scrum of Scrum and helps to facilitate PI planning.
• Facilitates skills assessment activities (i.e. “Skills Bingo”) to ensure team is prepared for work commitments.
• Ensures Azure Dev Ops (ADO) Core Fields are completed.
• Incident Management – keep track of aging tickets and help team resolve incidents timely
• Coordinates team building activities.

Required Experience:

3-5 years’ experience leading Agile teams

Proficiency with MS Azure Dev Ops Boards

Preferred Experience:

SAFe Scrum Master or Advanced Scrum Master Certification

Infrastructure support or Windows engineering background

Department:
Preferred Vendors

This is a contract position