What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at Heitmeyer Consulting?
**Columbus – Hybrid**
Job Responsibilities
Job Responsibilities
- Understand and effectively lead the execution of the scrum ceremonies and practices with the team. Sprint planning, estimation, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, reporting & metrics (e.g. burn down, velocity).
- Achieve consistent Flow of work through the team. Maintain a holistic view of the work.
- Drive continuous improvement and lead change.
- Problem Solving
- Issue management – remove barriers and keep the team on track
- Risk management – identify potential problems that can impact the team and mitigate
- Create transparency by radiating information.
- Agile Mindset – Internalize and put in practice the Agile Manifesto and supporting practices (see below). Having an end to end agility mindset (from business idea through delivery). A great Scrum Master not only understands the foundations of Agile but embraces an Agile mindset. They will be value focused and guided by Lean-Agile principles and Systems Thinking.
- Communication & Listening Skills – A great Scrum Master is an open communicator that can deliver a message with tact, being sensitive to how the message is received by the team or by leadership. There are times it is important to listen rather than speak to understand the other point of view (shut up and listen).
- Servant Leader – Lead by example. Put the needs of your team members first. Motivate team members to give their best through mentoring, coaching, encouragement, decisions, and your personal behavior. Lead the team to achieve as much self-organization as possible. Ensure team members and stakeholders view each other as peers. Praise often but always sincerely.
- Continuous learning & growth mindset – continue to learn new skills that will help to improve your performance and to help you help others (e.g. Agile, Lean, DevOps, technology, leadership).
- Collaboration – ability to partner with the Product Owner, Program Teams and work effectively with Product Managers, scrum team, other stakeholders and leadership.
- Facilitation – The skill to facilitate meetings, decision making and facilitating change. Comfortable facilitating groups and presenting in front of teams, leadership, and stakeholders to communicate release related information and addressing problems.
- Negotiation & conflict resolution – Creating a win-win situation while facilitating decision making among the Product Owner, the scrum team, stakeholders, leadership. Lead the team through healthy conflict and debate.
- Critical Thinking – A great Scrum Master has the ability to think on their feet. They can quickly analyze a situation and organize teams around a solution. They do not have to define the solution but has the savvy to guide the conversation.
- Technology proficiency & Engineering practices – have an understanding of the technology and engineering practices being utilized by your team and the overall organization (e.g. DevOps such as CI/CD pipeline, multi-level automated testing). Nice to Have:
- Experience as a Scrum Master for a Enterprise Bank.