Scrum Master
Title: Scrum Master
Location: Seattle, WA (Hybrid)
Duration: 1 year
Job Description:
- Hybrid schedule Seattle office preferred but other locations will be considered for strong candidates.
- The Scrum Master will assist multiple Agile development teams with facilitating and coordinating Agile Scrum processes in addition to guiding and coaching the team on Agile Scrum principles and practices. They will work with teams across the organization to understand requirements and will facilitate planning and estimation with the development teams.
- The Scrum Master will utilize Jira to track and measure completion of work and provide status updates to key stakeholders.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
- Assist in backlog grooming to ensure requirements are known and stories are sized.
- Track and communicate Epic/Story status, risks and issues to primary stakeholders and project management.
- Implement and track metrics to facilitate delivery of high-quality solutions on time.
- Provide estimations for work completion as well as communication of potential trade-off decisions for prioritization.
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks and guide team to higher scrum maturity.
- Remove roadblocks and resolve conflicts that impede the team’s progress.
- Lead the effective and efficient delivery of large complex cross-functional projects and manage implementation activities for concurrent work-streams.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, drive issue resolution, identify risk, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
- Demonstrated ability to read and interpret technical information.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- 3+ years of experience leading Agile teams in a Agile Project Management/Scrum Master role.
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, Epics, user stories, automated testing, and backlog refinement)
- Excellent communication skills and servant leadership skills
- BA/BS in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or related area of study from an accredited college or university with applicable agile and project management experience.
- IT delivery background with software development experience
- Experience with Agile/Kanban Software Development.
- Certification in Agile methodologies, such as PMI-ACP or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is a plus.
- Financial Services background is a plus.
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