As a Senior Scrum Master, you will support our Engineering Scrum Teams and help the company build high-impact software and features that deliver value to our customers. You will be responsible for keeping our scrum teams focused by guiding them, helping clear their blockers and ensuring that they have what they need to be successful in what they do.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Facilitate effective communication among team members
- Keep all parties on track and informed of project progress
- Provide timely feedback to stakeholders
- Champion agile values, principles, and practices within the organization
- Onboard, train, and mentor scrum team members
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies, including stand-up meetings, sprint meetings, retrospectives, etc.
- Help Product Owners refine, arrange, and optimize product backlogs
- Remove roadblocks that can hinder the progress of teams
- Tweak and adjust the team’s Agile practices to better facilitate software delivery, as needed
- Coordinate with release planning and deployment activities
- At least 5 years as a Scrum Master (or in a similar role)
- Lives and breathes the principles of servant leadership
- Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Agile Scrum Master Certification (we strongly prefer this)