Job Description
Follow Agile methodologies and principles for the coordination of multiple technology projects with personnel from the various IT functions (i.e., Quality Assurance, Development, Business Analysis, DevOps, Infrastructure), PMO, and across the enterprise.
Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, grooming, demos, and other scrum-related meetings.
Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
Develop the team to become self-organizing and empowered, facilitating decision-making, issue resolution and consensus among team members.
Embrace a servant-leader role across Scrum teams and support them by proactively identifying and resolving impediments, so that the team can focus on delivering sprint goals without interruptions.
Coach the team on how to use agile / scrum practices and values, to increase delivered value.
Monitor sprint burndown charts and maintain other productivity metrics to ensure that committed sprint work can be completed, while preventing scope creep and identifying risks.
Facilitate the team's creation of a project plan, track progress, and monitor project variance to ensure timely delivery of initiatives.
Assist in dependency management and cross team coordination to ensure work across integrated systems is prioritized and delivered by the necessary scrum teams.
Ensure that established processes are followed across teams while providing feedback for continuous improvement.
Assist in Jira administration, the creation of eazyBI reports, and other add-ins to support process changes, tool enhancements, reporting changes, and other improvements.
Collaborating with team, developing, and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices, including working agreements and definition of done.
Responding quickly, flexibly, and positively to change, using it as an opportunity to learn, develop, practice and support the organization.
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
Coordinating with PMO on enterprise project plans, estimates, release dates, and new initiatives.
Required Skills & Experience
6+ years working on software delivery projects.
4+ years of project management experience in software development using Agile and traditional SDLC methodologies
4+ years of Scrum Master experience
Demonstrated excellence in leadership and ability to create collaborative, productive teams.
Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
Knowledge of other Agile approaches, including Kanban and XP.
Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, Story Mapping.
Experience with enterprise agile planning tool. Experience administrating Jira preferred.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
A-CSM Certification
PMP, PMP-ACP, or SAFe experience
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.