Sr. Scrum Master

Job Description

Responsibilities
A Senior Scrum Master has the primary responsibility for facilitating the learning and growth of one or more Lean | Agile Teams in developing a Lean-Agile mindset, improving practices, and guiding teams to more predictable delivery. The Servant Leader plays a crucial role in facilitating Agile ceremonies and planning of releases, removing impediments, providing guidance, and supporting Lean | Agile teams in becoming high performing. He or she also mentors other Team members on Lean | Agile values, principles, and practices.

Key Responsibilities:
• Works with Backlog Owners and Implementation Team members to learn and practice healthy backlog grooming and prioritization practices.
• Supports the execution and improvement of backlog grooming.
• Prepares for and facilitates Big Room & Release planning with Lean | Agile Teams.
• Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination.
• Facilitates Team-level Agile Ceremonies.
• Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture with Lean | Agile teams.
• Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management.
• Teaches and train new team members on Lean |Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process.
• Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices.
• Mentors the Lean | Agile Team on agile values, principles, and practices.
• Removes impediments to the team's ability to perform.
• Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions.
• Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution.
• Facilitates team development, mediates conflicts, protecting the team, and encourages healthy team dynamics.
• Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization.
• Leverages coaching skills to help the team to solve its own problems.
• Introduces and encourages team to explore healthy Agile development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery.
• Teaches and encourages a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability.
• Helps the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements.
• Promotes transparency through healthy communications and data integrity.
• Promotes eXtreme Programming practices like test driven development, pair programming, and automation testing.

Qualifications/Requirements
• Experience with Agile Methodology
• Experience with Project Management
• Experience with Project Management software
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant-leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Apart from professional experience, an ideal candidate for this role should be professionally trained as well.
• Common Lean | Agile certifications associated with this role, but not limited to, are:
o Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance).
o SAFe Scrum Master (Scaled Agile Institute).
o SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (Scaled Agile Institute).
o Kanban Foundations (Lean Kanban University).
o ICAgile – Certified Professional (International Consortium for Agile).
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older
• The ideal person will have at least 8 years supporting technology (preferably in Media), 4 years' experience as a Scrum Master, and hands-on experience with different Lean | Agile frameworks.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8vjmx-3-138-141-202-42 in your application.