Scrum- SAFe- Agile- POPM- Kanban

Job Description / Requirements

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as a Scrum Master for multiple teams across the program where required.
• Experience in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is required.
• Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood and modeled in project plans and timelines.
• Identify, document, and publish risks and issues related to the overall program and to define resolution paths where required.
• Resolve cross-team impediments and blocking issues.
• Collect and consolidate cross-team status for delivery to stakeholders and executive management.
• Schedule and conduct meetings and ceremonies in accordance with best practices for Agile/Scrum software development.
• Responsible for building team collaboration, commitment towards achieving sprint objectives and viewing team needs above everything else.
• Continuously work to improve team performance and productivity:
  • Encourage team accountability, self-organization, and empowerment.
  • Share common Agile practices.
  • Promote and support the development team’s automated processes.
  • Facilitate Retrospectives which generate new ideas for process improvement.
• Maintain relevant metrics that guide the development team to more efficient processes in their work and in satisfying their Product Owner and stakeholders.
• Maintain effective information radiators that aid transparency and encourage clear communication between the development team, the Product Owner, and stakeholders.
• Active participant in the local scrum chapters to share and learn new agile concepts.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required in a technical or business-related field, Master’s degree preferred.
• A Scrum Master Certification or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in software development and 4 or more in a Scrum Master role.
• Demonstrated 10+ yrs of experience in delivering software products.
• Technical knowledge on C#, .NET technologies, preferred.
• Tax & Accounting experience a plus.
• Experience as a Scrum Master within enterprise scale SDLC environments.
• Subject matter expert of Scrum in addition to extensive knowledge of other Agile development approaches and practices.
• Experience with TFS and Jira project management tools and implementation of best practices in Agile tools and workflows.