Scrum Master

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The Senior Scrum Master is accountable for all aspects of a diverse, very complex information technology project or multiple large-scale IT projects. Serves as a coach, mentor, and facilitator of Agile practices ensuring fast product development through transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Provides project management coordination, support, and assistance in all aspects of IT product development.

Job Responsibilities

1. Coach, mentor, and facilitate the team members’ adoption of an Agile mindset, including ownership, self-management and empowerment.
2. Manage and facilitate the scrum team's daily work including execution of Sprint Ceremonies (e.g., Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective)
3. Capturing and tracking sprint metrics (e.g., team velocity), and being accountable for the continuous improvement of the scrum team
4. Create a collaborative environment which allows the team and stakeholders to interact closely.
5. Identifying and removing impediments to allow the team to focus on development.
6. Tracking and managing dependencies and escalating appropriately and effectively.
7. Help the team identify its strengths and weaknesses.
8. Motivating and acting as the glue that holds the team together.
9. Act as a Coach/Mentor to other teams and more junior Scrum Masters in the same portfolio
10. Help craft and maintain portfolio level reporting (integrated plan), leading a collaboration of other Scrum Masters and Project Managers.
11. Lead, facilitate and participate Scrum of Scrums (SoS), Scrum Master Community of Practice (SM CoP), and similar forums for developing and peer coaching best practices.
12. Act as power user of product development technology such as Azure DevOps or Jira, and coach more junior Scrum Masters on optimal use of tools.
13. Apply working knowledge of waterfall/traditional project management practices and show practical hands on experience working with vendors to integrate waterfall teams and vendors into the Agile portfolio, and encourage their steady transition into adopting Agile practices
14. Help coordinate vendor and system integrator portions of implementations
15. Over time, develop deep functional knowledge of their teams’ domain areas, including role appropriate understanding of the business, technical, and regulatory operating environment.
16. Perform Team and Portfolio level Delivery and Release Planning, and capacity and velocity projections.
17. Identifies, monitors, and coordinates interdependencies across multiple products/projects.
18. Oversee the design, development, and implementation of work plans to determine the required tasks and resources.
19. Create schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports.
20. Support the portfolio management decision process through the creation of project charters, scope documents, risk assessments, and budgets (including both capital, expense, and O&M tails for projects)
21. Lead medium to large scale IT projects for a business unit within time, budget, and specification constraints.
22. Provides strategic direction of critical path milestones within project plans.
23. Monitors and communicates status to leadership. Communicate and incorporate feedback from customers.
24. Risk Identification, Action Planning, and Analysis

Basic Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree, and 6 years of related work experience OR 8 years of related work experience
2. Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Agile Scrum Master (ASM)
3. 6+ years of experience as a scrum master or RTE
4. Strong track record of on-time, on-budget, and to-specification delivery of projects
5. Ability to effectively execute an agile project.
6. Ability to manage relationships with internal business customers.
7. Proven experience leading and coaching teams in a complex or highly regulated environment

Preferred Qualifications

1. SAFe Certifications
2. Scrum Certification
3. Utility and compliance experience
4. 1 year+ experience working as, or closely with, traditional project management.
5. Experience leading teams though transition from traditional project management into Agile