What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at BizTek People, Inc. | APA International Placement Consultants?
Overview
The Enterprise Architecture & Platform Team needs a
strong Scrum Master. As the Scrum Master, you will
lead Scrum teams in applying and optimizing Scrum practices to maximize team
performance and effectiveness.
In this role, you will:
- Support one or more Architecture
Delivery Teams in the execution and coaching of scrum practices
- Partner with Product Owners, Business
Stakeholders, and Architecture to deliver business value.
- Work closely with the Program Manager
to ensure budget, resources, and alignment on work are being met
- Operate within a scaled agile
framework
- Schedule and facilitate all aspects of
the Scrum framework, including sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming,
daily scrums, product demos, and sprint retrospectives.
- Maintain the Scrum team’s capacity
plan, Scrum board, sprint backlog, velocity charts, burn down charts and Value
Drop wins.
- Identify and help remove impediments
to the success of the Sprint.
- Identify and communicate potential
risks to the completion of the Sprint, including resources, costs, and external
dependencies, with proactive escalation as appropriate.
- Provide timely communication
throughout the Sprint.
- Coach, mentor, and evangelize agile
best practices across the organization.
- Drive cross capability coordination
& scheduling with other scrum leads.
- Manage the release process for the
team.
Qualifications
- Bachelors' degree in Business,
Computer Science or a related field, with 2 years additional relevant
professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree.
- 5 years hands-on Scrum Master/Coach
experience in advanced, large-scale agile settings diligently applying Scrum
principles, practices and theory.
- 5 years professional experience
leading or contributing to large projects, including software development and
quality teams.
- Certified Scrum Master required, other
Scrum certification desired.
- Experience and/or familiarity with
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) desired.
- Excellent verbal and written
communication.
- Experience working with VersionOne or
similar agile work management tool: building summary views, using agile
planning boards, setting up dashboards.
- Proven ability to pull together
diverse individuals with different goals and facilitate productive discussion
and action.
- Track record of leading others and
positive change in project definition, project delivery, and data driven
process improvement.
- Past success in creating high
performance teams, inspiring and empowering them to achieve results.