Scrum Master - SigmaWays : Job Details

Looking for a Scrum Master to guide the team to follow Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint and Program Increment.

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Agile Scrum, preferably as a Scrum Master.
• Working experience with Scrum teams.
• Preferred experience in Product Development.
• Coach the team to address any issues with the Agile/scrum process. Instill an “Inspect & Adapt” culture within the team.Facilitates and is accountable for leading the team through the agile ceremonies.
• Daily scrums, Sprint demos, Retrospectives, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning,PI Planning
• Manages team workload, and reaches out to their managers or Product Management when needed to negotiate time.
• Manages dependencies across other Agile teams, regularly working with the other scrum masters and Program Manager/RTE.
• Works closely with the Product Owner, Product Analysts, and Solutions Lead in ensuring sprints are healthy and work is effectively delivered by the team.
• Owns the Jira project and handles the management of all issues in Jira for the team. Uses metrics in Jira, including burn up/down charts, release burndowns, and team.
• Velocity to assess team health and identify improvement opportunities. Uses Jira to track team and team members' capacity based on tangible metrics.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 4-6 years of previous Agile Coaching or Scrum Master experience, with deep knowledge of all Scrum roles and Scrum ceremonies.
• Experience implementing Agile techniques in different cultures and environments with projects of varying size and complexity. Demonstrated understanding of Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, Test Driven Development, and Continuous Testing & Integration. Coaching new and existing teams in Scrum and/or Kanban/Scrumban best practices, so teams can meet sprint and release goals and mature in agile practices.
• Knowledge of or experience in a scaled agile environment (preferred).
• Hands on experience with some type of agile tooling: JIRA, AgileCraft, VersionOne, TFS.
• Experience in scaled Agile (SAFE).
• Agile Certification (preferred), Certified Scrum Coach (CSC), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Agile Coach (PMI-ACP, ICA-ACC).