Agile Scrum master / Flow Master

Job: Agile Scrum master/ Flow master

Job responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective).
• Ensure the team maintains focus on delivering highpriority backlog items each sprint.
• Support the Product Owner with backlog refinement and maintaining a clear product backlog.
• Guide the team in achieving Definition of Done for all work items.
• Coach and mentor team members on Agile/Scrum best practices and foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and collaboration
• Shield the team from external interruptions to maintain sprint focus.
• Foster an environment of collaboration, accountability, and transparency.
• Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and feedback loops.
• Encourage proactive problemsolving and conflict resolution.
• Partner with Product Owners, stakeholders, and leadership to ensure alignment.
• Facilitate communication across teams when working in scaled Agile environments.
• Ensure the team has the tools and support needed (e.g., JIRA, Azure DevOps).
• Track and report on team performance metrics (velocity, burndown charts, cycle time).
• Use data and metrics to support transparency and informed decision

Required Skills:

• Strong experience understanding and implementing Agile values, principles, and practices (i.e., Kanban, Scrum) based on Team's maturity.
• Strong hands on experience with tools like JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint
• Experience with JIRA to create/enhance dashboards, monitor progress of sprint/work flow, and providing statuses in timely manner.
• Demonstrated experience working on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work.
• Experience working with stakeholders for backlog item prioritization, grooming, and understanding of epic/stories/tasks
• Experience with work breakdown and estimation, sprint planning, monitoring progress and removing impediments to deliver solutions for business needs.
• Strong experience using risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills
• Experience in gaining buy-in and support from stakeholders
• Experience managing, maintaining, and analyzing data to derive meaningful and actionable insights about the portfolio.
• Certified Agile Scrum Master or Kanban Flow Master
• Experience with Program Increment (PI) planning and tracking dependencies across functional teams.
• Demonstracted experience on the technical side of the application development cycle to support the agile teams in driving enhancements and projects.

Desired Skills"

• Certified SPC or SAFe agilist in SAFe transformation
• Certified Project Manager