Scrum Master

Brief Description:
Responsible for a team's collaboration, transparency, and delivering product releases while meeting quality standards and milestones. Identifies and procures all necessary resources to meet project specifications. Facilitates Agile rituals and provides sprint-level reporting.

Detailed Description:

• Facilitates seamless collaboration and maximizes team performance by driving continuous improvement within assigned technical and non-technical teams.
• Ensure rapid and timely delivery of business value streams and achievement of goals. 
• Mentors and coaches teams (including the Product Owner) in Agile practices and mindset.
• Fosters a growth mindset and spirit of continuous improvement and learning. 
• Removes impediments to team progress whether internal to the team or organizational in nature. When necessary, escalates impediments to facilitate rapid resolution. 
• Supports and educates product owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making. 
• Ensures effective communication within and across teams.
• Influences and facilitates the empowerment of a self-organizing team.
• Schedules and facilitates cross-functional meetings.
• Ensures appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports effectively provide transparency on team’s progress and productivity. 
• Performs risk, issue, and dependency management for their team.
• Ensures release management practices align to enterprise standards. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Min 5 yrs of Agile experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous scrum master experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration or related discipline with an information technology or equivalent and extensive related IT Technical or Customer Support experience.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
• Experience with Azure DevOps; and GHERKIN knowledgeable.
• High degree of professional confidence and credibility with the presence and communication skills to represent IT-related concepts effectively.
• Adaptability; self-starter; team player; quality minded; focused; committed; able to work independently.
• Certified Scrum Master preferred.