Responsibilities include:
• Act as a servant leader to the scrum team
• Removing impediments for the scrum team to ensure maximum productivity
• Effectively organizing and running scrum ceremonies including daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective, and backlog refinement
• Coaching teams in Agile principles and practices
• Becoming an active participant in Agile communities of practice by sharing Agile expertise and best practices
• Tracking and articulating organizational impediments to program leaders
• Building a solid working relationship with the product owner team
• Identifying, managing and (when appropriate) escalating cross-team dependencies, challenges and issues
• Tracking sprint and scrum team progress through burn-down charts, Kanban and other metrics
• Facilitating retrospective sessions and introduce new and different retrospective techniques to keep team members engaged
• Managing workflow and updates in Jira
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, business or related field
• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Extensive knowledge of technology concepts, strategies, methodologies, architectures and technical standards
• Experience with Agile at scale in large enterprise organizations
• Scrum Alliance or Scrum.org certifications
• Superior mentoring, analytical, problem solving, and communication skills
• Experience with Jira and Agile Craft a plus
• Experience with SAFe, certification a plus
• Experience working with distributed teams a plus
This is a long term contract opportunity
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