Role: Agile Scrum Master
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Emp Type: Permanent Job
Interview: Phone/Skype
Responsibilities
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Coordinates and facilitates agile ceremonies, practices and execution across an agile team
• Promotes and coaches best practices
• Fosters self-organization on the agile team
• Removes impediments outside of the team’s control
• Supports ruthless improvement within the team, including the Product Owner
• Acts as an agile change agent
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization.
• Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Strong understanding of Scrum and Kanban principles
Skills and Experience
• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least three years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory. Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• 5 Plus years of experience in Information Technology space, preferably in the Banking industry
• Knowledge and strong work experience of various tools and techniques that are relevant for the Scrum Master role including JIRA, and SharePoint
Agile Scrum Master certifications such as CSM