Summary

In this role, you will be working closely with software development scrum teams to help guide them in Agile/Scrum practices. The Scrum Master does everything possible as a servant-leader to help the team perform at its highest level. This involves removing any impediments to progress, facilitating meetings, training in advanced concepts, and working with the product owner to make sure the product backlog is in good shape and ready for the next sprint.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Coach teams on Agile and Scrum practices to improve software delivery
• Remove obstacles that are impeding the team\xe2\x80\x99s progress
• Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity
• Schedule and facilitate Scrum ceremonies
• Help the development team reach consensus on what can be achieved during a specific time period
• Protect the development team from outside distractions
• Work with product owners and product managers to make sure the team is working on the right priorities
• Keep up to date with the latest in agile/scrum practices, including scaling, and bring that information to the team to be implemented
• Reporting out team metrics to leadership and stakeholders

Education Qualification

• Bachelor\'s Degree in \xe2\x80\x9cSTEM\xe2\x80\x9d Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with Agile/Scrum experience.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Must be Scrum/SAFe certified and experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least (5) years for a software development team
• Experience in conducting all scrum ceremonies
• Strong communication skills
• Strong coaching abilities
• Strong conflict resolution skills

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least () years for a software development team applying Scrum principles and practices
• Awareness and experience with a wide variety of Agile practices: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Automated Testing, etc.
• Understanding/experience of the Power industry
• Knowledge of Scaled Agile frameworks will be a plus
• Experience working with multiple teams simultaneously
• Driven by a clear focus on the Manifesto and the Principles
• Comfortable with challenging the status quo to deliver business value outcomes over just managing output
• Understands what it means to have an empowered team and has experience coaching towards that
• Expert at creating backlogs including writing, prioritizing, estimating, and sizing user-centered stories

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes