Scrum Master

Job Description Job Description Works with and coaches teams with the planning, managing and delivery of capabilities and associated deliverables in support of organizational objectives. Lead teams in using agile methodologies including Scrum to improve team effectiveness. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS Facilitate iteration (sprint) planning, lead work within individual sprints, and coordinate retrospectives and demos. Assist key business users (product owners) with backlog creation and prioritization. Ensure cross functional team coordination (GUI designers, analysts, developers, and testers). Lead daily sprint stand-ups and resolve conflict. Maintain and publish Agile metrics (e.g. velocity and burn-down). Coach, mentor, and evangelize Agile best practices across the organization. Manage project external dependencies by working with outside teams. Strategically work complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Includes planning, plan creation and ongoing management, execution and implementation. Coaches activities to maintain progress, mutual interaction, and tasks of various parties in such a way that reduces the risk of failure, maximizes benefits, and minimizes costs. Builds, develops, and grows business relationships with stakeholders at multiple levels and multiple locations. Maintains continuous alignment with defined strategic business objectives. Coaches, mentors, motivates and coordinates project team members and contractors, and influences them to take positive action and maintain accountability for their assigned work. 4 years experience Top Skills Ability to guide team through transition to scrum High level of familiarity with Jira Coach team effectively to plan work and deliver to business partners IND1