What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Scrum Master position at JPC Partners?
JPC Partners is looking for a Scrum Master that will:
- Act as the Scrum Master for multiple product teams using an agile methodology in the execution of software development projects
- Organize each team’s product backlog to ensure product teams and management have a clear view of progress and priorities. Create and modify Jira stories, change tickets and other artifacts necessary to ensure successful software releases.
- Create and maintain Confluence pages to track requirements, meeting minutes, and follow-up actions and release documents.
- Facilitate product teams in the review, estimation, and planning of software development efforts for the upcoming quarter.
- Collaborate with the product owner and the core team to prioritize work based on company goals and objectives
- Organize sprint planning meetings to review the product backlog, ensure stories have adequate detail, and identify user stories to be included in upcoming sprints.
- Conduct sprint review meetings to review the scope and functionality delivered in the previous sprint
- Organize sprint retrospectives to document lessons learned and implement process improvements. Ensure the team abides by the SCRUM rules and guidelines.
- Hold daily SCRUM meetings to allow each team to synchronize their work and communicate issues and roadblocks to the product owner
- Empower each product team and remove roadblocks to ensure continuous progress
- Assist product owners in maintaining product backlogs by facilitating backlog grooming sessions
- Work effectively as part of the scrum team to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines
- Establish a sense of urgency to complete tasks in a timely, cost-effective manner with top quality
- Maintain an exceptional level of customer focus centered on integrity and transparency
- Track metrics for each scrum team and make them available in company tools for reporting
- Actively listen and respond to the needs of the product teams and customers in a manner that provides value and generates significant customer satisfaction
- Drive for results - Comfortable leading meetings, focusing team members on the task at hand and facilitating groups to reach consensus in a timely manner
- Recent, significant experience as scrum master facilitating multiple scrum teams working on enterprise software projects across business areas
- Experience working with dynamic, highly collaborative teams, requiring close consultation and coordination.
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Expert knowledge of Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Office applications
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree
- Advanced Degree
- Certified SCRUM Master and/or PMP
- Familiar with enterprise Java, .NET, Oracle, MS SQL
- Experience within utilities, pharma, banking, finance, insurance, or other highly-transactional systems environments that produce very large amounts of data