Scrum Master

The Scrum Master II coordinates the work of an Agile development team and oversees the software development lifecycle. This role involves planning and facilitating scrum activities such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives. The Scrum Master collaborates with clients or end users to understand business requirements and acts as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure appropriate project processes are followed. Additionally, they identify and resolve impediments that may slow development or prevent the team from meeting established goals or milestones.

Ensure their team is able to organize and follow the scrum and ASI processes. Help ensure all their team members have taken the appropriate step on stories so their team is a well-oiled machine. Remove Impediments, encourage the team to work only on task, and encourage Dev Manager to plan. Conduct Retrospectives, and schedule Backlog Grooming., * Plan and facilitate scrum activities, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives.

• Ensuring the breakdown of work. Force the breakdown of stories into substories, tasks, spikes, etc.
• Help build the schedule for deliverables. (Development timeline, PMO would be ultimately responsible for the schedule). Resource mapping/loading, what is our capacity? (Project is what we need to do, team should be focused on who needs to do what).
• Strategically identify if the schedule requires more resources than the team currently has. Resource balancing.
• Collaborate with clients or end users to understand business requirements.
• Act as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure appropriate project processes are followed.
• Identify and resolve impediments that may slow development or prevent the team from meeting established goals or milestones.
• Work with team members on backlog and processes.
• Understand and remove impediments to the scrum process.
• Escalation of risk issues outside of the development group to other management levels. (if we fall behind during the sprint, we don’t just accept that, we try to push it and identify what can be done). Take what is going on and identify issues to the right groups that can do something about it.

• 3-6 Years of related experience engineering field.
• Bachelor’s degree in related technical field. Scrum Master Certification (CSM) preferred.
• Thorough understanding and mastery of Scrum processes.
• Experience with Agile Software development process
• Ability to communicate effectively to engineers and management
• Ability to foster teamwork.
• Ability to develop and mentor others.
• Performs work under minimal supervision, handling complex issues and problems, and referring only the most complex issues to higher-level staff.
• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter.
• Provides leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group.
• May act as a lead or first-level supervisor.
• Decision-making skills.
• Management skills.
• Customer/client orientation.
• Technical expertise.
• Computer skills.
• Project management skills.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to remain in a stationary position for significant portions of the workday including during meetings, presentations, and computer-based tasks.
• Ability to maintain professionalism and composure while meeting tight deadlines, during conflict, and while delivering presentations.
• Ability to communicate and exchange information clearly and effectively in high-level meetings and discussions.
• Capacity to analyze complex data, manage multiple concurrent projects, and make critical decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to frequently travel and work outside of standard business hours as required by operational needs.