Job Title: Scrum Master

Status: Full Time

Location: 100% Remote

Reports to: Vice President for Product Engineering

Who We Are:

Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, System Automation (SA) has created solutions for state and local regulatory agencies for over twenty-five years. Our elegant SaaS platform is trusted by state and local government agencies and is used by 500 agencies, spanning 5,000 industries, and serving over 20 million licensees.

At SA, our mission is simple - we are here to positively disrupt the regulatory software market by incubating new ideas, collaborating with our customers, and building technology that has a real-world impact. We're more than just another software company - we challenge the status quo, aren't afraid to experiment, and make products that positively impact the states and cities we live in.

About The Role:

We are looking for an experienced scrum master to oversee and guide scrum teams. The scrum master's responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

To be successful as a scrum master, you should have a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively manage and mentor multiple development teams. An outstanding scrum master should have excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills.

What you will be doing:

• Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Help ensure that scrum events are productive, effectively timeboxed and positive.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Planning and organizing sprint reviews and product/system testing.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
• Tracking project processes and deliverables to ensure that development team commitments are accomplished.
• Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.
• Supporting product owners and providing education where needed.
• Coaching development, QA, and support teams to proper agile practices in order to guide the team towards the most effective methods for achieving software development goals.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
• Certified scrum master, SAFe preferred.
• 3+ years of experience as a scrum master or in a similar role.
• Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Excellent people and project management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

What do you receive by joining our team?

• Competitive Wages and Career Advancement
• Health and Welfare options to include (medical, dental and vision) health savings account with company contributions, medical flexible spending, and dependent care.
• 401(k) with company match
• Continuing education program
• Uncapped flexible time off and sick leave
• Monthly virtual team activities
• Stipend to outfit your home office

At System Automation, we are focused on making peoples’ lives in the cloud easier through innovative products built by passionate employees. We are looking to add talented, motivated people to our team to help achieve this mission through the engineering, support, and delivery of our revolutionary MyLicense Platform.