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Role Description

• Act as the Scrum Master for multiple product teams using an agile methodology in the execution of software development projects.
• Organize each team’s product backlog to ensure product teams and management have a clear view of progress and priorities.
• Facilitate product teams in the review, estimation, and planning of software development efforts for the upcoming quarter.
• Collaborate with the product owner and the core team to prioritize work based on company goals and objectives.
• Organize sprint planning meetings to review the product backlog, ensure stories have adequate detail, and identify user stories to be included in upcoming sprints.
• Conduct sprint review meetings to review the scope and functionality delivered in the previous sprint.
• Organize sprint retrospectives to document lessons learned and implement process improvements. Ensure the team abides by the scrum rules and guidelines.
• Hold daily scrum meetings to allow each team to synchronize their work and communicate issues and roadblocks to the product owner.
• Empower each product team and remove roadblocks to ensure continuous progress.
• Assist product owners in maintaining product backlogs by facilitating backlog grooming sessions.
• Work effectively as part of the scrum team to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines.
• Establish a sense of urgency to complete tasks in a timely, cost-effective manner with top quality.
• Maintain an exceptional level of customer focus centered on integrity and transparency.
• Track metrics for each scrum team and make them available in company tools for reporting.
• Actively listen and respond to the needs of the product teams and customers in a manner that provides value and generates significant customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Recent, significant experience as scrum master facilitating multiple scrum teams working on enterprise software projects across business areas.
• Experience working with dynamic, highly collaborative teams, requiring close consultation and coordination.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Expert knowledge of Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Office applications.
• Drive for results - Comfortable leading meetings, focusing team members on the task at hand and facilitating groups to reach consensus in a timely manner.
• Associates or Bachelor’s degree.

Requirements

• Advanced Degree (preferred).
• Certified SCRUM Master and/or PMP (preferred).
• Familiar with enterprise Java, .NET, Oracle, MS SQL (preferred).
• Experience within utilities, pharma, banking, finance, insurance, or other highly transactional systems environment that produces very large amounts of data (preferred).