Sr Scrum Master

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Fulfills the role of Scrum Master leading multiple Scrum teams through the Agile process in the delivery of critical, customer facing, enterprise software development projects
• Implements Agile practices to facilitate the incremental and adaptive delivery of software products within the scrum teams
• Facilitates improvements in software development practices/processes within the teams
• Facilitates the adoption of key engineering practices like Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, etc. to improve quality and reliability of team’s deliverables
• Responsible for coaching and mentoring of Product Owners and Scrum Team members on Agile/Scrum/Lean principles and practices
• Coach, mentor, and motivate Agile team members, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work
• Build and document a successful and reproducible Agile foundational framework that can be adopted by other teams within the organization

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of technology experience.
• 5+ years of experience, as an Analyst, Project Manager, Developer or Architect, working with technical teams developing Enterprise class software applications
• CSM certification with 3+ years of experience as SM for technology teams diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Experience mentoring other developers and helping them improve their skills
• Ability to understand business needs, not just technology needs, and experience working with a variety of roles (business, support, operations, development)
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Knowledge of numerous, well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: Burn down techniques, Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Ability to communicate well both verbally and in written form
• Ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to read communication styles of team members and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines
• Experience using Jira and Atlassian agile templates is strongly desired
• Greatly beneficial to have previous experience in the healthcare industry
• Greatly beneficial to have exposure with cloud, Java and other open-source toolsets
• Greatly beneficial to have experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

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