Scrum Master

SkySlope Scrum Master

A scrum master is passionate about technology and agile practices. You will lead the agile/scrum practice, leading sprint teams into successful completion of sprints. You will also work with product owners and leadership to facilitate conversations within and outside of the sprint teams.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Be the Agile champion and guide one or more teams in adoption of agile/scrum principles

2. Monitor team activity and guides workload commitments

3. Remove ambiguity by connecting with external teams or individuals so sprint progresses on schedule

4. Shield the team from external interferences that can jeopardize sprint goals

5. Keep team members engaged, involved and informed

6. Maintain data integrity, completeness, and accuracy in team tools for work tracking and reporting

7. Ensures effective and efficient meetings such as stand-ups, grooming, sprint planning, release planning and retrospectives

8. Promotes collective ownership of story completion and sprint goals

9. Ensure team understands and commits to specific sprint goals and follows through accordingly

10. Provide consistent and periodic project status to senior management

11. Escalate impediments that cannot be resolved by the sprint team

12. Manage project for the engineering team

13. Coordinate cross-functional meetings to create project plans, release plans and other artifacts as needed

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Measurables:

• Velocity

• Work completed

• Impediment hours

Qualifications

• Scrum Master experience within web engineering and familiar with product launch cycles

• Highly motivated, self-driven and passionate about delivering great experiences

• Structured and efficient in planning and coordination of projects and sprints

• Ability to be the agile leader for the sprint and extended team, focusing on best-practices and principles

• Mentor sprint teams and external members on agile/scrum principles

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Expertise with various agile and software development tools (e.g. JIRA)

• Demonstrable history of leading various agile/scrum projects for cross-functional and highly matrixed organizations

• Able to influence and coach senior leadership on continually growing the agile practice

Required Education and Experience:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Certified Scrum Professional(CSP) required

• PMP certification, preferred

$105,000 - $120,000 a year