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Duties:
Qualifications:
- Facilitates and is accountable for leading the team through the agile ceremonies, including: Daily scrums, Sprint demos, Retrospectives, Backlog, Grooming, Sprint Planning, PI Planning.
- Guides the team to follow Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint and Program Increment. Coach the team to address any issues with the Agile/scrum process. Instill an Inspect & Adapt culture within the team.
- Proactively removes impediments to team agility and guides the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blockers.
- Protects the team from disturbances and conflicting priorities. Manages team workload, reaches out to their managers or other Scrum Masters when needed to negotiate time.
- Manages dependencies across other Agile teams, regularly working with the other Scrum Masters and Program Manager/RTE.
- Works closely with the Product Owner, Business Analyst, and Solutions Lead in ensuring sprints are healthy and work is effectively delivered on by the team.
- Owns the Jira project and handles the management of all issues in Jira for the team.
- Uses metrics in Jira, including burnup/down charts, release burndowns, and team velocity to assess team health and identify improvement opportunities.
- Uses Jira to tracks team and team-members capacity based on tangible metrics.
Qualifications:
- Typically 7+ years of IT work experience.
- Typically 3 years minimum experience as a Scrum Master using Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodology.
- Proficiency using Jira (managing scrum boards and generating metrics); bonus if they have experience with Jira Align, which incorporates SAFe methods.
- Demonstrated ability to coach individuals in a scrum team.
- Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of explaining technical and project related information to stakeholders.
- Proven ability to balance competing priorities.
- Certified SAFe Scrum Master (desired).
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or a Green Card holder with intent to become a U.S. Citizen
