Scrum Master

Sr. Scrum Master Location: Richmond, VA ONLY Remote option: This role is not available as a remote worker. About the Opportunity, The Information Technology Services (ITS) Business Enablement (PMO) department has an immediate opening for a Project Manager / Scrum Master at the Senior level. In your role, you will provide expertise and direction on highly complex, large-scale and/or high-priority technology-based projects, offering varying levels of project management oversight, and directly influencing activities on business-critical projects from the conceptual phase through solution implementation and project close. You will be a single point-of-contact for and work with all areas affected by projects and use industry-standard best practices to assure delivery of project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables, and compliance with all project management processes. You also may direct the work of matrixed teams. What You Will Do Facilitate intake and own work execution of technology-based architecture team members with inputs from customers, IT leadership, Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, and other stakeholders. Coordinate prioritization, resource allocation, capacity, and assignments by working closely with stakeholders. Manage a team of Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers on an agile scrum team (SAFe). Clear impediments for the team and communicate risks, issues, and organizational impediments to leadership. Facilitate agile/scrum ceremonies such as PI ceremonies, sprint ceremonies, scrum of scrums, summits and working sessions. Ensure a healthy continuous improvement environment. Provide communication and reporting to stakeholders on current health, support areas, and improvement plans. Manage innovation portfolio, including a pipeline of initiatives from concept through disposition, and communicate initiative and portfolio status. Own and/or support presentation & narrative (storytelling) of technical concepts, recommendations, and alternatives to a diverse set of stakeholders. Ability to implement agile metrics and use those metrics to help the team(s) identify opportunities for improvement during the retrospective meetings. Ability to empower a self-organized team to work together on product delivery. Proven ability to teach, mentor, facilitate, and coach teams to continuously improve while using the Scrum framework. Coordinate work across multiple Scrum Teams where dependencies exist. Ability to manage the agile software development lifecycle from project initiation to release to production. Ability to influence change across the organization by adopting Scrum/Agile principles. Ability to challenge teams to break down stories into reasonable sizes to deliver work in every Sprint. Possesses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database, and system design. Proven experience managing large, complex Data Warehouse/ETL applications is preferred. Facilitate Sprint Planning/Pre-Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, and Product Demos. Qualifications bachelor’s degree or higher. 5 to 9+ years of relevant experience. PMP, Scrum, and Agile certifications preferred. Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate technical concepts to all audiences. Demonstrated ability to be successful operating in a virtual environment. Ability to ask probing questions, identify unstated assumptions, and resolve conflicts. Broad knowledge and expertise of Project/Agile methodologies and industry best practices to lead high performers who work individually as well as a cohort. Strategic with execution skills by applying a lean-agile mindset to maximize value of Architects skills, time & capacity. Excellent facilitation skillset with the ability to connect dots and understand interdependencies. Exceptional computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite and SharePoint. Experience with Agile tools like Version 1 and Jira is preferred. #J-18808-Ljbffr NN Tech, LLC