Scrum Master

Responsibilities

• Act as Scrum Master or Agile coach on more than one cross‑functional agile team.
• Build strong trust and work tightly with Engineering Leadership.
• Facilitate daily scrum and other ceremonies associated with chosen Agile methodology.
• Lead teams to self‑organization.
• Facilitate getting work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating.
• Constantly assess team and tweak application of Agile to increase efficiency and remove waste.
• Collaborate and partner with peer Agile Coaches to apply shared learnings to all teams.
• Create transparency by radiating information within the team and outside of the team.
• Manage a complex web of communication across a matrixed Agile team and organization (both technical and non‑technical stakeholders and various levels of leadership).
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Shield team from external disruptions.
• Own Agile‑related metrics like white on rice!
• Train teams and outside stakeholders in Agile practices.
• Work tightly with the product owner to ensure clarity of requirements and exit criteria.

• Zealot about Agile principles, not methodologies.
• Have a great, positive attitude.
• You take the performance of your team personal (extreme ownership).
• An exceptional listener.
• Servant leader.
• Impeccable communication skills.
• Exude credibility in Agile domain.
• Influencer.
• Never blocked; you find a way.
• Flexible.
• Enjoy the work of gathering and reporting metrics (Data driven outcomes).

• First‑level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I).
• Deep and hands‑on knowledge of various Agile frameworks (Lean Kanban, Scrum, etc.).
• 3+ years playing active Scrum Master or coach role within development teams.
• Experience communicating and defending (and taking ownership for) performance metrics with senior leadership and business stakeholders.
• Have trained and converted teams who were not Agile to a successful and sustained Agile outcome.
• Demonstrated master‑level skill at one or more Agile tool suites (Rally, Jira, Azure Dev Ops, Version One, etc.).
• Highly skilled at identifying and removing blockages within team.
• Familiar with and experienced serving software engineering teams.
• Thorough understanding of software engineering principles and industry trends (e.g. refactoring, architecture, Dev Ops, automation, CI/CD, telemetry, and so on…).

• PMP or ACP Cert preferred.
• Scrum Cert preferred.
• SA Cert preferred.
• Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, Project knowledge of SDLC Rally.