Scrum Master

Scrum is a framework that promotes team autonomy, accountability and flexibility in accordance with scrum values. We are deeply committed to the practice of scrum and the agile mindset. These commitments guide our work processes, fostering collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement. We embrace openness and transparency, regularly inspecting and adapting our practices to ensure we deliver maximum value to our customers.

The Scrum Master serves as a mentor and facilitator for development teams. They will play a pivotal role in nurturing our agile culture, psychological security, and driving our teams towards excellence. By championing scrum practices and promoting agile principles, ensuring our products are delivered efficiently, our teams are empowered, and our lines of business are actively engaged.

• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Ensuring they occur in cadence with the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Leverage agile principles to inform the development processes.
• Promote effective communication and collaboration, leading to team alignment.
• Facilitate improvement in the processes for how information is exchanged.
• Contribute feedback one on one, and at the team and organizational level, offering guidance, training and coaching on scrum practices and agile mindset.
• Hold the teams accountable to the development policies, procedures, processes, and metrics that reflect best development practices and business objectives.
• Lead in the removal of impediments by coaching to proactively identify and manage project risks, and dependencies, causing awareness within the appropriate stakeholders.
• Cultivate a culture of trust, respect and open communication within the teams, promoting collaboration and innovation that is essential for high performance and problem solving.
• Provide support, and collaboration to Product Owners in management of the product backlog to ensure that teams are working on the most valuable work items.
• Promote continuous improvements by encouraging the teams to reflect on their processes and performance, identifying areas for improvement for better ways of working and delivering value to our customers.
• Develop processes and workflows such that the scrum team’s performance is optimized, costs are constrained, and focus is placed on the drive for quality of deliverables.
• Utilize key performance indicators (KPI’s), and other metrics, for tracking progress and identifying areas for improvement.
• Provide feedback and guidance to team members and stakeholders on work item progress, quality and team productivity.
• Work with team members, such as Product Owners, Developers, and Quality Analyst groups, to achieve project reporting and project goals.

• Scrum Master Certificate and/or a deep understanding of the Scrum framework and how it can be applied to software development projects
• Experienced in Agile project management and development methodologies
• Ability to develop and implement best practices and to resolve conflict
• Ability to track team members progress to ensure projects stay on track
• Ability to create and report metrics to department and division management
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional troubleshooting skills and able to quickly assess complex problems
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Share Point

This role requires a five day in-office work schedule in downtown Indianapolis that may vary dependent on your Agile team’s in-office schedule. Core working hours are typically between 7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., aligned with assigned Agile team collaboration needs

• BS/BA degree in a technical, business, or related field. Preferred, but not required
• A minimum of 5 years expertise in software development
• A minimum of 2 years as a product/project manager or equivalent
• Experience working with multiple tech stacks or types of applications (e.g., legacy, mobile, cloud, web)