Associate Scrum Master

Job Summary

Can you lead by example rather than dictate? Do you know how to bring out the best in others? Do you take a servant-leader approach to overcoming challenges? Part Project Manager, Developer, and Product Owner, you focus the team to achieve and exceed expectations. You can orchestrate teams and systems to optimize performance and throughput to deliver client value. This role will find the best path forward for the team through collaboration, communication and establishing cadence that overcome differences and emphasize negotiation. The Scrum Master has confidence to say “no” when appropriate and “yes” when the team can take on prioritized work and push for greater results. This individual will serve as the point person responsible for understanding the big development picture of each sprint and ensure that tasks are delegated appropriately and processed at the right time.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Act as Scrum Master for 1-2 scrum teams with a focus on coaching the team towards improving the delivery of value
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as sprint/iteration planning, daily planning, retrospective, and sprint demos.
• Assist the Product Owner with regular and disciplined backlog refinement
• Work with various stakeholders to remove impediments to the team
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team measure and improve performance
• Liaise between the Development teams and Product Management, fostering communication between the disciplines
• Lead dependency management and planning increment efforts
• Strengthen the presence of our team on the Agile Project, Program, and Portfolio Office
• Actively contribute to the company’s Agile culture
• Ability to manage multi-disciplinary project teams through influencing and coaching
• Ensure the team comes to agreement on what can be achieved on each sprint (or other period of time)
• Facilitate daily stand-ups to help the team reach consensus on what was done, what will be done and what obstacles may exist
  
  

Experience

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Business Administration or other related field. Equivalent experience may substitute for degree
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

One to three years of experience as a Scrum Master/Scrum practitioner working in an agile environment

Skills/Knowledge

• Experience with and knowledge of Kanban, Scrum
• Experience with and knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC), specifically agile lifecycle management
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Demonstrated agile mindset and approach to problem-solving
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite to include Teams and SharePoint
  
  

Demonstrated knowledge of scrum/agile tracking software such as Version One, Atlassian, Jira or other related programs