Scrum Master

Summary of Position:

The Scrum Master is responsible for managing multiple agile-based development team workstreams to ensure teams are progressing and meeting their sprint commitments. In this position, you will manage multiple cross-functional teams, ensuring that work is progressing, delivery impediments are addressed, the scope of commitment is held, and ensuring releasable code is delivered at the end of each sprint. The Scrum Master will partner with Agile Product Owners to take the product backlogs and establish sprint backlogs. Also, this position will be responsible for facilitating Agile Ceremonies and supporting the team and Product Owners.

Essential Functions:

• Manage the scrum team in using agile methodology and scrum practices
• Responsible for customer satisfaction while working with the product owners and development teams
• Support the scrum teams in self-organization
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of designers, business analysts, developers, system architects, quality engineers, and others to develop and execute against Product Increment (PI) objectives
• Promote and drive Agile development methodology throughout the work and teams
• Own and direct all sprint-based ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint demos, and retrospectives, and facilitate sprint planning and tasking
• Lead and manage weekly Scrum of Scrum meetings
• Report on and provide visibility into overall team performance metrics including velocity, defect rates, and other performance measures
• Act as a subject matter expert for assigned products
• Attend all scrum seminars
• Review accepted & prioritized feedback, and new requirements from stakeholders (Product Backlog) and work with scrum teams to convert the most critical work into sprint planning and sprint backlogs
• Ensure that scrum team deliverables meet agreed-upon standards for quality and non-functional requirements and that the products meet the stated business need
• Assist product management with backlog grooming and pre-planning exercises including story refinement
• Participate in technical architecture and planning meetings before sprint planning
• Ensure sprint deliverables meet the definition of done before product acceptance
• Responsible for sprint monitoring, and escalating scope delays and deviations to product owners and technical leaders
• Work with a cross-functional team to produce delivery options for features based on time, cost, and quality considerations
• Manage the process of the team to break down program-level features into detail-level user stories that are consumable and testable by the Scrum team
• Ensure development teams are executing commitments in priority order to mitigate delivery risk
• Responsible that scrum team deliverables are being met by the agreed-upon standards for quality and non-functional requirements, and that the products meet the stated business need
• Manage all work items in a delivery tool such as JIRA
• Work with development teams to translate feature stories into technical requirements as needed
• Responsible for partnership with Product Owner and team to prepare and present sprint demos with stakeholders
• Work with technical leaders to identify, escalate and unblock development team impediments
• Accountable for team success and delivery on sprint commitments, including measurement, timeline, and scope
• Responsible for performance management of the team
• Ensure the team follows agile values, principles, processes, practices and delivers business value and working software
• Resolve conflicts and issues that occur
• Support the product owners and provide knowledge sharing and training where needed
• Review completed development work to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been met and that features and stories meet the definition of done
• Provide leadership in product community – uphold the principles of agile (e.g., seek collaboration, not consensus, influence, negotiate, integrate
• Empowered to make critical decisions regarding team dynamics, functionality, and priority
• Participates in acceptance criteria development for sprints and the features included

Competencies:

• Ensures Accountability
• Tech Savvy
• Communicates Effectively
• Values Differences
• Customer Focus
• Resourcefulness
• Drives Results
• Plans and Prioritizes
• Decision Quality
• Self-Development

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee in this position frequently communicates with other co-workers/clients who have inquiries about the various projects and other needs. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position 75% of the time. The employee in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc. Constantly operate a computer and office machinery such as a calculator, keyboard, copy machine, and printer. Frequently moves boxes with equipment weighing up to 25lbs across the building and/or to other offsite buildings for various project needs.

Required Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in Management or related field

3-5 years of experience

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years in project management or related role, 2+ years in an Agile development environment
• Must have the ability to navigate through complex situations and break down the complex into simple and actionable tasks, track the work to completion and manage up to 4 scrum teams effectively.
• Experience as a Scrum Master running multiple teams required
• Recent scrum certification preferred
• Familiarity with common lean/agile development practices and service-oriented environments
• Outstanding technical, analytical, and problem-solving abilities, along with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Proven ability to manage conflicting product priorities
• Highly organized and adept at prioritization -you can recognize and keep track of all the moving pieces in projects, adjusting to new information and goals
• First-class influencing skills, including experience working within a large matrix organization
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal); proven ability to work with cross-functional teams to drive execution against deliverables

AAP/EEO Statement:

3MD Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on gender, sex, age, race and color, religion, marital status, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other category that is protected by applicable law.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.