Scrum Master

Location:

Johnston, Rhode Island

Date Posted:

1/4/2023

Employment Type:

Consulting

Recruiter:

Clayton Minnich

Recruiter Email:

Job ID:

JN -012023-15396

Job Description

Must have skills:

Knowledge and expertise in Lean and Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
Understanding of one or more Scaling Agile frameworks is desirable – e.g. SAFe
Strong facilitation and communication skills: ability to facilitate teams through tough conversations and maintain a positive and supportive team environment
Ability to support transformation by modeling, coaching, and teaching.
Able to challenge and remove team, organizational and/or cultural impediments promoting and supporting change that increases the Scrum teams’ productivity
Able to resolve conflicts within the team before they become an issue – strong facilitator
Agile champion, promoter, protector, and team coach
Able to problem-solve and perform causal analysis (e.g. Lean)
Able to create, teach and help teams maintain Agile performance metrics like Velocity, Lead/Cycle Time,
Technical Debt, Automation, etc.

Experience:

4 plus years of combined experience working in complex Agile environment with multiple teams and dependencies in an enterprise organization
2 plus years of experience as a Scrum Master working with multiple teams in a complex environment
Experience enabling transformations and onboarding new teams to Agile ways of working. Must understand and be skilled at teaching the foundational basics with strong presentation of the ‘why’.
Experience working in scaling Agile environment using SAFe or similar frameworks would be nice to have
Experience working with Agile tools e.g. Jira, Rally, ADO, VersionOne, etc.
Exposure to modern engineering practices like UTDD, ATDD, Test Automation CI/CD, etc.
Background in software engineering or business analysis of minimum 2 years is desirable