SUMMARY:
The Senior Scrum Master provides leadership, guidance and coaching to their teams. Responsible for facilitating a cross functional agile collaborative team in iterative technology development. Provides leadership, guidance and coaching to other Scrum Masters.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and manage detailed project plans and manage all implementation processes including scope, schedule budget/resource allocation, progress tracking, monitoring change control process, testing, documentation, training and on-time delivery
• Remove impediments that hinder project progress
• Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and iteration meetings
• Monitor the progress of the sprint
• Help teams estimate iteration deliverables
• Manage development tracking system to include product and sprint backlogs
• Promote continuous communication
• Monitor and help improving team dynamics
• Motivate and act as the glue that holds the team together
• Subject Matter Expert for agile methodologies and practices
• Act as a Release Manager for projects involving multiple scrum teams; manage dependencies between assigned scrum team and third parties or between assigned scrum team and other scrum teams
• Generate process reports; maintain relevant metrics that will allow teams and management to evaluate how the project is progressing
• Partner with the product owner for release planning and backlog maintenance
• Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values; drive best practices in the use of the Agile methodology; establish and manage Agile governance structures, when necessary

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I), preferred (CSP, PSM II)
• 4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, project manager or technical lead within a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous burndown techniques, numerous retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
• Creativity, flexibility, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to develop a positive working relationship with peers and management
• Strong business aptitude, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Proven ability to navigate complex situations through organizational landscape and with multiple stakeholders
• Experience with other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Ability to regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment in the performance of his/her job duties.

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