Job Description

The Role

• Deeply passionate about collaborating with others to help optimize a team’s performance and build strong leaders.
• A Leader, and sometimes a coach in the Scrum process, and believes that collaborative communication truly gets the most out of a cross-functional team.
• Able to put others at ease by forging meaningful and productive relationships with those around you, and you have an infectious “get it done” mentality.
• An excellent communicator, and believes that communication is at the root of most organizational success.
• Foster strong and cohesive teams. Foster trust and collaboration across all team members to work as one unit. Assist teams resolving destructive conflict.
• Energetic and positive, and you take pride in your ability to bring structure to inherently complex working environments.
• Naturally able to share lessons learned and best practices with others, build relationships with stakeholders and broker relationships at all levels.
• Work with management and teams to strengthen our agile culture as well as work with teams and individuals to inspire the goals of self-determination, entrepreneurship, and customer-centered thinking.
• Be a change agent for teams, leaders and the overall organization in establishing a lean agile culture
• Assist teams and leaders in executing agile practices in a way that leads to continuous improvement.
• Facilitate strong cross-organization communication on agile techniques. Work with other Scrum Masters and agile leaders to develop and foster cross-team communication.

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master focused on software development.
• Agile Methodology experience.
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices as well as other methodologies that will allow you to coach the team on possible techniques.
• Understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative development as well as backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition.
• Proven leadership experience in achieving successful project outcomes.
• Track record of delivering strong results in large scale/complex software development projects.
• Experience working with distributed software development products and teams.
• Demonstrated Ability to lead cross functional teamwork in and across teams and organizations.
• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals, including project metrics and dashboards.
• Hands-on management of projects and their outcomes, rather than passively collecting and reporting metrics.
• Strong ability to identify potential issues and dependencies early.
• Quickly facilitates mitigation plans, alternative approaches and communication of risks.
• Fully committed to transparency in all situations.
• Highly organized with excellent multi-tasking skills.
• Customer service orientation.
• Analytical thinker with creative problem solving skills and attention to detail.
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master focused on software development.
• Agile Methodology experience.
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices as well as other methodologies that will allow you to coach the team on possible techniques.
• Understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative development as well as backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition.
• Proven leadership experience in achieving successful project outcomes.
• Self-starter attitude and ability to build a strong rapport and trust with resources in several functional areas.
• Adeptness at learning new technology and tools.
• Detail oriented with excellent communication skills.
• BS/BA degree or relevant experience.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence or Azure DevOps is a plus.
• Experience working with Microsoft technology stack is a plus.