AVP, Scrum Master II

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Job Overview:

The Scrum Master II is responsible for providing Agile facilitation and coaching to 1-2 Agile teams to ensure the teams adopt and maintain high performing Agile delivery practices, and realize the value intended.

This role supports the following PMO service offerings:

• Planning & Time Management

• Risk & Issue Management

• Stakeholder Management

• Governance

• Benefits Management

Responsibilities:

The Scrum Master II works closely with Delivery Coordinators, and Release Train Engineers. This role reports directly to the Solution Train Engineer.

• Ensure the team follows standard Agile processes while identifying opportunities for improvement.

• Facilitate team in defining Working Agreements, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done and then ensures those agreements are upheld.

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies: daily stand-up (scrum) meetings, retrospectives, demos, backlog grooming / refinement, backlog sizing, sprint planning and team engagement.

• Identify and help to remove impediments, escalate impediments to the product and solutions manager, recommend ways to resolve impediments, and influence leadership to act on these recommendations.

• Help team inspect and adapt process through retrospectives, data / metrics tracking, and creating a safe, trusting environment with space to grow.

• Coaching the team to higher levels of performance.

• Assist with internal and external communication and improving transparency by creating visible information radiators (burn-downs, velocity chart, etc.), dashboards, and demos.

• Provide metric reports to assist in product roadmap planning.

• Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work directly.

• Observe team interactions and use emotional intelligence to discuss observations in a safe, trusting environment.

• Support product planning by participating in release planning discussions.

• Support execution through understanding of priority and sequencing required to deliver efficiently.

• Guide team in commitment making and sprint completion.

• Hold team (Product, Development, QA, and team members) accountable for delivery commitments.

• Help team identify when commitments are at risk and assist team with solutioning to ensure commitments are met.

• Be an agile subject matter expert and provide strategic influence with the product / business and other engineering organizations.

• Ensure team’s backlogs are always sufficiently full (at minimum 3-4 sprints worth of work defined).

• Practice servant-leadership and promote learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, communicating information, and providing advice to drive efforts forward.

What are we looking for?

We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of product or project development experience, or 2 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of Agile Certification and work experience

• Experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization

• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices

• Experienced at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques

• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

Core Competencies:

• Coaches the Agile delivery team on Agile mindset and methodologies, and relevant processes.

• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel

• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and princip