Scrum Master

Job Description

In the Scrum Master role, you will be a Servant Leader to your team(s), establishing and maintaining an environment where the team(s) can be effective, fostering a relationship between the team and the Product Owner as well as other dependent teams, and protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions. The Scrum master will encourage open communication and transparency and drive the appropriate agile methodologies (Scrum) while focusing on predictability, quality delivery, continuous improvement of the team and overall program execution.

Responsibility

Nurture self-organizing, strong teams through leadership and mentoring.

Maintain metrics for continuous improvement and organizational visibility.

Gain respect as an excellent communicator among the team, partners, and management.

Identify risks and facilitate quick resolutions.

Uphold and mentor Scrum values and principles.

Create a transparent development process.

Guide teams to improve their work methods.

Facilitate Scrum activities and meetings.

Assist with implementing Scrum values and support cross-team coordination.

Ensure groomed product backlog and remove impediments.

Experience in promoting agile engineering practices preferred.

Familiarity with TFS for tracking sprint backlog workflow preferred.

Monitor team velocity and empower self-organization.

Skills

Experienced in coaching new Agile teams, cross-functional team members (Dev, QA, BA, Architecture), Product Owners, and Product Managers to achieve best practices

Understanding of fundamentals of software development processes in particular iterative software development

Knowledge and understanding of backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task definition

Experience working as a Scrum Master (Certified a plus but not required)

Ability to receive feedback constructively to improve development

Complete understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and its processes and procedures

Proven track record of delivering software application in an Agile environment