Job description
Title: Scrum Master
Location: New jersey Onsite 3 days a week
- Keep track of and help solve impediments and escalate if necessary.
- Work with the Agile team and other stakeholders to help solve impediments
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration and dependencies
- Apply organizational understanding and power to solve impediments quickly
- Help the Agile team manage their progress via transparent backlog and board overviews
- Maintain relevant team metrics and follow-up on team measurements
- Facilitate and support the Agile team to deliver according to agreements
- Help the Agile team and other roles prepare and align expectations before and during events
- Actively work with the Product Owner to qualify backlogs and demos
- Help the Agile team prepare for events
- Evaluate future backlog to ensure availability of people and budgets
- Make sure that team norms are exhibited, including, but not limited to, priority driven workflow, realistic and executable iteration loading, and limited work-in-progress practices
JOB / TEAM DETAILS
Describe the role in non-technical terms:
- Facilitate the Agile team to efficient delivery
- Via facilitation and feedback ensure that the Agile team is constantly evaluating own efficiency and taking corrective actions when improvement opportunities are identified
- o Provide collaborative leadership to one or more Agile teams by applying Agile practices (such as Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe) and to help Agile team members embrace and practice the values and principles of Agile
- o Support the Product Owner and entire Agile team in their efforts to facilitate a healthy team dynamic within the Agile team and vis-à-vis other Agile teams
- o Work with stakeholders to understand needed future capabilities, and in cooperation with the Agile team, People Leaders and others, ensure build-up of these capabilities
- o Facilitate the team in adopting DevOps and built-in quality
- o Help identify IT enablers and facilitate prioritization and execution
- o Promote Agile quality practices
In case that the team is part of an Agile Release Train (ART), the Scrum Master must work with the Release Train Engineer, Product Management and System Architect in Scrum of Scrums and other Agile teams (including Scrum Master and Product Owner) to ensure deliveries
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Must-Haves (needs)
Good to Haves (wants)
Education:
Required relevant experience:
- Experience in Lean-Agile methodologies preferred
- Experience with technical IT delivery as Developer, Tester or similar preferred
- An elementary understanding of team dynamics and facilitation
- Limited practical experience with Agile tools or techniques (e.g. shadowing another Scrum Master)
- Capable of handling a co-located team
- Understand the Agile mindset and culture
Technical skills:
- Data analytic/development knowledge
Familiar with systems: Connex, Tableau, Informatic, Veeva, Snowflake, QlikView/Sense,
Soft skills:
- Strong PM or scrum master skill
- Authentic and credible role model for the Agile methodology
- Excellent communicator and facilitator of team dynamics
- Able to navigate in a complex stakeholder environment
- Empathetic and strong relationship builder
- Good at handling conflicts and building trust
- A source of motivation and inspiration to others
- Able to delegate and empower others to take action
- Excellent coaching skills
- Able to provide difficult feedback in a constructive way
- Able to ensure a healthy, engaging and inclusive work environment
- Drive Agile teams, vendors, and customers in the Agile way of working incl. Agile Delivery Model, Azure DevOps, Agile QMS, and Agile Sourcing.
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