Title: Sr. Scrum Master
Location: Austin, TX (hybrid 4 days on site, 1 WFH)
Duration: 3 months
What you are good at
- Execute on Scrum Master responsibilities that include organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other meetings
- Influence team members to leverage, follow and support agile software development practices
- Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget
- Track internal and external Project dependencies?
- Identify gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans
- Track and communicate team velocity, sprint/release progress and maintain process documentation
- Provide accurate and succinct updates and escalations (with business impacts)?
- Serve and support team by removing impediments and partnering with Senior Managers and Project Managers
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; Identify and remove impediments; prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal; Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
- Empower the teams to self-organize;?improve the productivity of the sprint teams;?ensure that the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable?
- Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally
- Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverable are synchronized as necessary to achieve product releases
What you have
- Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years?Scrum Master Experience
- Kanban experience would be a plus
- Experience using Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) and maintaining Scrum Boards including feature break down to Epics, User Stories, Tasks and Subtasks
- Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values and procedures
- Must be an excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate
- Experience working with agile methodology on large scale, technically complex projects
- Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle
- Highly adaptable to changing environment
- Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
- Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential
- Must be self-motivated, well as creative, and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.?
- Must be collaborative in driving decisions and able to deal with multiple projects and deadlines
- Ability to hold team members accountable, set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, keep team engaged and on task.?
- Experience working in the financial industry and aware of basic financial concepts
- Experience taking Business requirement and writing technical requirement using BDD
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, written and verbal
- Self-starter, organized, ability to work on multiple projects and handle multiple scrum teams
Must Have
- Agile , person will be wearing muti hats on the team, scrum, release, and some program mgmt
- Release and scrum - top
- Some technical expertise will be helpful here
- Tools: jira, going towards rally (good to have)
Plusses
- IAM - understanding, identity and authentication - plus
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