Senior Scrum Master

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We are currently seeking a Senior Scrum Master to join our team in Halifax, Nova Scotia (CA-NS), Canada (CA).

Job Description:
Job Profile Summary
The Senior Scrum Master job facilitates a cross-functional agile collaborative team in iterative technology development. Under limited supervision, this job coaches the development team of scrum principles, helps the team focus on sprint goals and to achieve their highest performance level to ensure the scrum project is successfully progressed. This job has some foundational knowledge in the specific area in order to advise on scope changes, Quality Assurance and other more technical aspects of the project.

Job Description
The Senior Scrum Master job facilitates a cross functional agile collaborative team in iterative technology development. Under limited supervision, this job coaches the development team of scrum principles, helps the team focus on sprint goals and to achieve their highest performance level to ensure the scrum project is successfully progressed. This job has some foundational knowledge in the specific area in order to advise on scope changes, Quality Assurance and other more technical aspects of the project.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Manages stakeholder expectations regarding target scope, schedule and budget.
• Improves the scrum process and project progress by removing impediments that hinder project progress.
• Facilitates daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and iteration meetings.
• Manages the development tracking system to include product and sprint backlogs.
• Monitors the progress of the sprint and helps teams estimate iteration deliverables and increase velocity.
• Fosters self-organization and collaborative scrum team and shelters the team from outside distractions to keep focus mainly on the agreed sprint goals.
• Ensures scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the development team and stakeholders to maximize the performance of the team.

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