Scrum Master Sr.

Description

Summary:
The Scrum Master Senior - Technical Project Manager is responsible for a team's collaboration, transparency, and delivering product releases while meeting quality standards and milestones, identifies and procures all necessary resources to meet project specifications, and facilitates Agile rituals and provides sprint-level reporting.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Facilitates seamless collaboration and maximizes team performance by driving continuous improvement within assigned technical and non-technical teams.
- Ensure rapid and timely delivery of business value streams and achievement of goals.
- Mentors and coaches' teams (including the Product Owner) in Agile practices and mindset.
- Fosters a growth mindset and spirit of continuous improvement and learning.
- Removes impediments to team progress whether internal to the team or organizational in nature. When necessary, escalates impediments to facilitate rapid resolution.
- Supports and educates product owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making.
- Ensures effective communication within and across teams.
- Influences and facilitates the empowerment of a self-organizing team.
- Schedules and facilitates cross-functional meetings.
- Ensures appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports effectively provide transparency on team’s progress and productivity.
- Performs risk, issue, and dependency management for their team.
- Ensures release management practices align to enterprise standards.
- Perform other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a similar role.
- Minimum 5 years of Scrum Master experience
- A minimum of 5 years experience working with Scrum or Kanban Framework
- Exemplary verbal and written communication and presentation skills, as well as listening skills.
- Highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical, decision making, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to build credibility and strong partnerships while working collaboratively within their teams and across the organization.
- Exemplary ability to effectively handle multiple tasks, determine priorities, and execute in a high-pressure environment.
- Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills that create win-win situations.
- Ability to quickly develop an understanding of the business and the technology and engineering practices utilized by their teams and organization.
- Ability to mentor and coach scrum masters as well as team members, product owners, stakeholders, and managers.
- Thorough knowledge of various software programs including Microsoft Office programs, and the ability to quickly learn new programs/systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Certified Scrum Master
- Knowledge of project management fundamentals
- Previous scrum master experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration or related discipline with an information technology or equivalent and extensive related IT Technical or Customer Support experience
- Two or more years of project management, or business requirements analysis
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products
- Experience with CONFLUENCE; and GHERKIN knowledgeable
- High degree of professional confidence and credibility with the presence and communication skills to represent IT-related concepts effectively
- Adaptability; self-starter; team player; quality minded; focused; committed; able to work independently

Exempt Status: (Yes   = not eligible for overtime pay) ( No   = eligible for overtime pay)
Yes

Workplace Type:
Office

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type

Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds:  in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

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