Salary Range: $100-$120k

Future duties and responsibilities

The Scrum Master will support one or more delivery teams within a fast-paced application development environment. As the Scrum Master, you will be a critical member of the core delivery team empowered to help build high performing teams, build a shippable product, and be responsible for leading Agile transformation at a program/portfolio level.

•  Coach and support Agile teams with continuous process improvement of software delivery
• Embrace servant leadership and embody the qualities and mindsets that are associated with Agile methods.
• Instill SAFe/Agile best practices including PI Planning, Team ceremonies, capacity planning, cross team dependencies
• Facilitate cross functional Feature/User Story creation
• Facilitate and manage cross team conversations and workshops with teams, clients and partners.
• Ability to pro-actively track and remove impediments for the team
• Facilitate product owner input and team interactions. Ensure the communication of scope and requirements changes throughout the team, including sprint impact analysis.
• Support product owner in management of backlog, ensuring Scrum process standards, identification of stakeholders and stakeholder conditions of acceptance.
• Assists team in creating predictable and reliable capacity assessments for sprints and Program Increments
• Support product development by providing high level business analysis and development estimates, including coordination of multiple product analysis
• Support teams and management towards improving agile processes and metrics.
• Help with new Scrum team setup or evaluate and mentor existing Scrum teams
• Deliver training classes as part of coaching for roles including product owners, developers and testers.
• Foster knowledge sharing and assist with creation and delivery of best practices documentation and training materials.
• Should be able to create governance structures which are focused on empowering teams to make decisions

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Clearly identify the essential qualification vs. the desired qualifications
• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
• Demonstrates leadership and interpersonal skills to engage and motivate team members
• Demonstrates initiative and strong attention to detail
• Knowledge of Scrum, Scaled Agile, Lean Agile, XP, Kanban and other Agile development techniques
• Ability to understand and aggregate product knowledge, including execution to product roadmap
• Strong emphasis on teamwork and close collaboration across all roles and functions
• Ability to synchronize with non-technical teams to deliver product releases smoothly, and managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work with vendors and stakeholders to identify project risks, constraints and dependencies
• Ability to handle conflict resolution well, facilitating discussion and alternatives of different approaches
• Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline
• 5+ years’ experience with customer-facing web applications
• Experience supporting a large-scale ERP implementation
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certification (required)
• SAFe Agilist 5.0 Certification (strongly desired)