Senior Scrum Master

Job Type : Contractor

Workplace : Atlanta, GA

The Scrum Master has primary responsibility of facilitating the learning and growth of one or more Agile teams in developing a lean-Agile mindset, improving practices and guiding them to more predictable delivery. The Scrum Master plays a role in facilitating Agile ceremonies and planning of releases, removing impediments, providing guidance, and supporting Agile teams.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Backlog Management Practices

• Works with Product Owners and team members to learn and practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices
• Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement
• Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams
• Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination

Agile Ceremony Facilitation

• Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams
• Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management
• Teaches new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process
• Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices
• Mentors Product Owners and team members in agile practices and continuous improvement

Delivery Team Support

• Removes impediments to the team’s ability to perform
• Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions
• Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution
• Facilitates team development, mediates conflicts protecting the team and encourages healthy team dynamics.
• Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization
• Leverages coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems

Advice and Guidance

• Introduces and encourages team to explore healthy Agile development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery
• Teaches and encourages a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability
• Helps the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements
• Promotes transparency through healthy communications and data integrity

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelor’s degree + minimum of 2 years relevant experience
• More than 5 years of working experience as a dedicated Scrum Master
• Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), or Kanban
• Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe
• Scrum Master certification or equivalent certified professional
• Facilitates backlog management and refinement
• Facilitates transparency of metrics, impediment removal, collaboration, and coordination
• Facilitates continuous improvement
• Must live within a commutable distance to the office