Scrum Master

Responsible for facilitating the scrum process on scrum teams handling moderately complex project, non-project, or maintenance work. 25% Guides the scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted Agile Scrum practices in a way that it helps them deliver business goals without compromising on quality and timeliness parameters.

25% Collaborate with product owners, program managers, or project managers to provide the status of deliverables and overall project/program status. 15% Coach scrum team(s) to deliver capabilities using agile practices to ensure both functional and non-functional (risk, security) requirements are met. 10% Partner with product owner(s) to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which may include stories from multiple projects.

10% Leverage empirical data to help the team(s) assess their scrum maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance. 10% Escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness. 5% TOTAL 100% Requirements Experience: 2+ years of experience working on multiple large-scale Scrum team projects, 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Agile Coach and 6+ years of IT experience.

VSTS, Jira experience. Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills to solve for blockers and impediments. Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 3 years for a software development team helping them meet quality and timeline goals. Experience in creating KPIs, dashboards and metrics Knowledge of Scrum Management tools like (Preferably VSTS) Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques, techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: Burndown, Retrospective, Release, Changes) Excellent communication and coaching skills Strong problem-solving skills and should be able to navigate in difficult situations