Scrum Master

Responsibilities include:

• Act as a servant leader to the scrum team

• Removing impediments for the scrum team to ensure maximum productivity

• Effectively organizing and running scrum ceremonies including daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective, and backlog refinement

• Coaching teams in Agile principles and practices

• Becoming an active participant in Agile communities of practice by sharing Agile expertise and best practices

• Tracking and articulating organizational impediments to program leaders

• Building a solid working relationship with the product owner team

• Identifying, managing and (when appropriate) escalating cross-team dependencies, challenges and issues

• Tracking sprint and scrum team progress through burn-down charts, Kanban and other metrics

• Facilitating retrospective sessions and introduce new and different retrospective techniques to keep team members engaged

• Managing workflow and updates in Jira

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, business or related field

• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master

• Extensive knowledge of technology concepts, strategies, methodologies, architectures and technical standards

• Experience with Agile at scale in large enterprise organizations

• Scrum Alliance or Scrum.org certifications

• Superior mentoring, analytical, problem solving, and communication skills

• Experience with Jira and Agile Craft a plus

• Experience with SAFe, certification a plus

• Experience working with distributed teams a plus

This is a long term contract opportunity