Job: Agile Scrum master/ Flow master
Job responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective).
- Ensure the team maintains focus on delivering highpriority backlog items each sprint.
- Support the Product Owner with backlog refinement and maintaining a clear product backlog.
- Guide the team in achieving Definition of Done for all work items.
- Coach and mentor team members on Agile/Scrum best practices and foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and collaboration
- Shield the team from external interruptions to maintain sprint focus.
- Foster an environment of collaboration, accountability, and transparency.
- Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and feedback loops.
- Encourage proactive problemsolving and conflict resolution.
- Partner with Product Owners, stakeholders, and leadership to ensure alignment.
- Facilitate communication across teams when working in scaled Agile environments.
- Ensure the team has the tools and support needed (e.g., JIRA, Azure DevOps).
- Track and report on team performance metrics (velocity, burndown charts, cycle time).
- Use data and metrics to support transparency and informed decision
Required Skills:
- Strong experience understanding and implementing Agile values, principles, and practices (i.e., Kanban, Scrum) based on Team's maturity.
- Strong hands on experience with tools like JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint
- Experience with JIRA to create/enhance dashboards, monitor progress of sprint/work flow, and providing statuses in timely manner.
- Demonstrated experience working on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work.
- Experience working with stakeholders for backlog item prioritization, grooming, and understanding of epic/stories/tasks
- Experience with work breakdown and estimation, sprint planning, monitoring progress and removing impediments to deliver solutions for business needs.
- Strong experience using risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills
- Experience in gaining buy-in and support from stakeholders
- Experience managing, maintaining, and analyzing data to derive meaningful and actionable insights about the portfolio.
- Certified Agile Scrum Master or Kanban Flow Master
- Experience with Program Increment (PI) planning and tracking dependencies across functional teams.
- Demonstracted experience on the technical side of the application development cycle to support the agile teams in driving enhancements and projects.
Desired Skills"
- Certified SPC or SAFe agilist in SAFe transformation
- Certified Project Manager