Scrum Master

Company: A P A International
Location: Hillsboro
Posted on: April 2, 2021

Job Description:

Contract - BizTek People, Inc. - United States Posted On 02/03/2021 Job Information Job Opening ID 7053 Language Skills English Location Hillsboro, Oregon Technology City Hillsboro State/Province Oregon 97124 Job Description Overview The Enterprise Architecture & Platform Team needs a strong Scrum Master. As the Scrum Master, you will lead Scrum teams in applying and optimizing Scrum practices to maximize team performance and effectiveness. In this role, you will:

• Support one or more Architecture Delivery Teams in the execution and coaching of scrum practices
• Partner with Product Owners, Business Stakeholders, and Architecture to deliver business value.
• Work closely with the Program Manager to ensure budget, resources, and alignment on work are being met
• Operate within a scaled agile framework
• Schedule and facilitate all aspects of the Scrum framework, including sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming, daily scrums, product demos, and sprint retrospectives.
• Maintain the Scrum team's capacity plan, Scrum board, sprint backlog, velocity charts, burn down charts and Value Drop wins.
• Identify and help remove impediments to the success of the Sprint.
• Identify and communicate potential risks to the completion of the Sprint, including resources, costs, and external dependencies, with proactive escalation as appropriate.
• Provide timely communication throughout the Sprint.
• Coach, mentor, and evangelize agile best practices across the organization.
• Drive cross capability coordination & scheduling with other scrum leads.
• Manage the release process for the team. Qualifications
  • Bachelors' degree in Business, Computer Science or a related field, with 2 years additional relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree.
  • 5 years hands-on Scrum Master/Coach experience in advanced, large-scale agile settings diligently applying Scrum principles, practices and theory.
  • 5 years professional experience leading or contributing to large projects, including software development and quality teams.
  • Certified Scrum Master required, other Scrum certification desired.
  • Experience and/or familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) desired.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication.
  • Experience working with VersionOne or similar agile work management tool: building summary views, using agile planning boards, setting up dashboards.
  • Proven ability to pull together diverse individuals with different goals and facilitate productive discussion and action.
  • Track record of leading others and positive change in project definition, project delivery, and data driven process improvement.
    
  • Past success in creating high performance teams, inspiring and empowering them to achieve results.--

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