Job Title – Scrum Master
Job Location – Norwood MA
Length – Contract (12 Months+)
Siemens is looking for a professional Senior Scrum Master with a passion for building and leading electro-mechanical teams. This position is responsible for facilitating, coaching, and mentoring HARDWARE teams in a medical product development organization. Successful candidates will have a strong sense of urgency and ownership.
Qualifications
Mastery of Agile Scrum roles, artifacts, and ceremonies and able to communicate and teach processes effectively to teams
Comfortable in a leadership role and a proponent for Servant Leadership
Have effectively managed a large budget while keeping deliverables on time and within budget
You desire to bring transparency to the business team about development; growing trust, while demonstrating your commitment to deliverables to the business team
You have a keen eye for delivery issues and risks, and a sense of urgency for removing blocks and driving continuous improvement
You understand healthy team dynamics and know how to coach and grow a high-performing team
Strong interpersonal communication skills
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
At least 2-3 years of Agile experience in a HARDWARE Scrum Master role
Bachelors degree
Responsibilities
Facilitating all necessary team meetings (sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews/retrospectives, etc.)
Facilitating Agile release planning and helping the PO manage the release backlog.
Coaching the team in Agile relative estimation techniques, cross-functionality and self-organization
Identifying, managing, and mitigating project issues and risks
Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to defining and prioritizing the product backlog
Ensuring transparency into the teams work through the sprint backlog, burndown chart and other Agile metrics
Leading by example - knowing when and how, to push for more results
Proactively Identifying and removing impediments that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint commitments
Being the coach and all around advocate for the Agile Scrum delivery methodology amongst project team and client stakeholders