Scrum Master
*This position is fully remote*
Primary Responsibilities:
- Work with a scrum team to deliver value iteratively and incrementally.
- Facilitate and support all Scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective as well as defect reviews when needed.
- Facilitate team productivity by removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team's goals and by preserving flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes.
- Ensure that goals, scope and product backlog items are understood and can be fulfilled by team members
- Collaborate with Product Owner, requirement owners and team to identify and clarify scope of business/systems requirements and help build healthy backlog for team
- Support the team's efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other delivery teams; represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS), helping the team remain aware of engagement opportunities and program effectiveness
- Helps the team embrace Agile Core Values, adopt, and apply Agile Principles, and implement Agile practices.
- Utilize data and team metrics to demonstrate team capacity, predictability, & maturity.
- Create various metrics as needed to help with gathering overall program status and product deficiencies.
- Assist with monitoring project progress against cost and schedule and resolving variance.
- Validating completion of scheduled project activities and milestones.
- Build strong relationships with customers, clients, vendors, and employees. Be the "go to" person for all project related matters.
- Creating and briefing presentations, reports, metrics to project team, leadership and client.
- Follows, develops and measures key performance indicators (KPI).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, or an equivalent amount of experience.
- At least five (5) years of Scrum Master experience.
- Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e., Scrum, Kanban) and understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
- Knowledge or experience with Salesforce or AWS technologies
- Ability to establish and implement project management processes.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Must be able to clear a Public Trust clearance
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