Terms of Employment
- Contract, 12 months
- This position is remote.
Overview
Our client is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to lead multiple cross functional teams, using Agile Release Train (ART) to guide them on how to use Agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum and Lean (e.g. Kanban) values/practices through servant leadership. As a Senior Scrum Master, you will create and nurture a culture of continuous learning, growth mindset and agile maturity in teams/ART through agile practices, agile mindset, metrics, SAFe guidelines, remove blockers and partner with leadership. In this role, you must exhibit and permeate the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile Mindset.
Responsibilities
- Facilitates the team’s progress toward team goals.
- Continuously engage in challenging the old ways of working to improve team level or ART level performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, velocity and other metrics defined by the enterprise.
- Help the team focus on daily and/or Iteration Goals in the context of the current Program Increment (PI) or Release Objectives.
- Leads team/ART efforts in relentless improvement.
- Teaches problem-solving techniques and helps the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.
- Facilitates team meetings such as Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, Iteration Retrospective etc. or ART level meetings such as PI planning, Scrum of Scrums, PI retrospectives etc.
- Ensures the DoD (definition of done) and other team/ART level working agreements are being followed.
- Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution within the team/ART to improve team level performance and value delivery.
- Supports the team’s ART’s efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other teams.
- Takes a lead role in coordinating work with other teams to improve flow and throughput.
- Frequently represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS), or run the Scrum of Scrum meeting, and/or other program level ceremonies to plan, execute, and improve the work & operating models.
- Helps their teams remain aware of opportunities to engage and improve larger program effectiveness.
- Helps their teams build effective relationships with the supporting teams like User Experience, Architecture, Shared Services etc.
- Supports the Product Owner and Product Management areas in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.
- Supports the team/ART in addressing and eliminating these issues to improve the likelihood of achieving the objectives of the Iteration or PI.
- Assists with internal and external communication and improves transparency.
- Identify and drive the culture change required to improve agility within their teams and ART’s.
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field.
- 8 years or equivalent in the use of Lean, Agile methodologies including three plus years as Scrum Master or Kanban lead.
- Proven success leading multiple Agile teams to agile maturity and improved customer outcomes.
- In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
- Scrum Master on a SAFe Agile Release train
- Experience doing value stream mapping, system level optimizations etc. applying Theory of Constraints and other Lean techniques.
- Knowledge of Lean Agile values, principles and practices.
- Knowledge of Lean agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban.
- Knowledge of Scaling frameworks like SAFe.
- Demonstrate strong and clear accountability for program success.
- Knowledge of Product Ownership, DevOps, Test Automation practices etc.
- Excellent communication skills written and oral.
- Self-starter with ability to prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines.
- Ability to organize data and create metrics/reports/dashboards.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office programs and industry standard Agile tools.
- Ability to drive change at different levels, manage conflicts constructively.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- SAFe Scrum Master Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSP)
- Certified SAFe® Release Train Engineer
- Certified Scrum Professional
nTech is an equal opportunity employer. All offers of employment are contingent upon pre-employment drug and background screenings. Only candidates who meet all of the above client requirements will be contacted by a recruiter.
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