Scrum Master

Scrum Master Position

Seeking a Scrum Master to join the Feature and Function application team. This role will focus on in-taking, tracking, reporting on, and refining roadmap items for one of the application scrum teams.

This position requires US citizenship or a permanent residency with a minimum of three years.

Key/Essential Skills/Qualifications

• Facilitate the intake and refinement of roadmap items for development.
• Manage the daily scrum, sprint planning, refinements, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings.
• Track the progress of roadmap items to remove blockers and increase transparency across the organization.
• Gather and communicate technical requirements to detail-oriented, non-technical stakeholders.
• Design and author progress reports for senior executive and key stakeholders.
• Associate Degree and 8 years of directly relevant work experience.
• Bachelor's Degree and 7 years of directly relevant work experience.
• Master's Degree and 6 years of directly relevant work experience.
• Level III - 5-7 Years

Responsibilities

• Leads the team's tasks and manages team working agreements.
• Plans, leads, organizes, and motivates one or more cross-functional items of high complexity, organizational importance, and visibility.
• Coordinate development dependencies that may span multiple development teams.
• Work with project stakeholders to define release scope, and deliverables in support of business goals.
• Act as a primary communication hub between functional departments and the scrum team to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time.
• Participate in creating and managing project timelines as per the project schedule so that timelines are met.
• Remove impediments for the teams and escalate the need for resolution of impediments to stakeholders such as product teams, scrum teams, as needed.
• Coordinate and oversee performance of resources and set expectations accordingly; and work with resource manager to address performance issues, as appropriate.
• Develop and grow business relationships vital to the success of the project.
• Coordinate and facilitate sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Drive development of release and sprint roadmaps.
• Assist product owners with backlog creation and grooming of stories (user flow journeys).
• Promote Agile and Scrum best practices across the organization.
• Report status of teams to executive audience.
• Possess general understanding in the areas of application programming, database, and system design.
• Proven experience managing large, complex web application development is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in any business/technical discipline or equivalent experience required.

Hybrid - 1 day a week onsite (for now Wed but that could change).