Scrum Master

Job Title: Scrum Master

Location: Juno Beach, FL

Duration: Long Term

Position Specific Description

Candidate must be a relationship builder that excels with minimal guidance in delivering IT projects on time. Must be a certified scrum master with at least 1 year of hands-on agile delivery experience with scrum/Kanban teams. The candidate must have working experience with Jira, Confluence and other relevant tools to facilitate collaboration with team members and liaison between the technical team members and user community. Must have good oral and written presentation (PowerPoint) skills. Good people skills are critical. Must be proactive, with a bias for action. Exposure to Scaled Agile practice a plus.

Desired Skills:

• Close collaboration with offshore\nearshore scrum master.
• Align offshore\nearshore and onshore scrum teams with enterprise PIs and Sprints.
• Anticipate needs for coming PI and populate backlog accordingly.
• Creates a product roadmap, coaches the writing of value-driven user stories, features, and epics, and maintains a well-refined backlog
• Experience with Office 365 suite, including Teams and SharePoint, a plus
• Experience with Service Now a plus
• Experience with Power BI a plus
• Basic understanding of AWS Cloud, DevOps and database technology a plus

Job Overview

This job provides leadership and direction to an Agile team, serves as an expert in the Scrum process, and enforces Scrum rules and framework. Employees in this role organize and facilitate release and sprint planning sessions, daily stand-up meetings, sprint demos, retrospectives, story refining sessions, and related activities. Leaders in this job embrace and display servant leadership behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with being Agile and facilitate the team becoming self-managing and high-performing.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Organizes and facilitates work planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, and sprint and release planning
• Facilitates collaboration for both internal and external teams, resolving conflict, removing impediments, and reducing external dependencies
• Coaches team members and stakeholders in preparation for Scrum ceremonies and events and in goal attainment
• Coaches team in Agile sizing techniques, makes appropriate and realistic commitments, and works closely with Product Owners
• Uses the Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool to prepare, communicate, and share team metrics and delivery results
• Creates a product roadmap, coaches the writing of value-driven user stories, features, and epics, and maintains a well-refined backlog
• Provides regular feedback to the Agile Transformation Team about new insights and lessons learned from team experiences
• Embraces servant leadership and displays behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with being Agile
• Keeps informed and educated about industry trends concerning Agile methodologies
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned