Scrum Master

Job Description

• Bring subject-matter expertise and coach teams around the principles, practices, of Lean and help build an Agile mindset and culture within teams.
• Have a very customer centric mindset.
• Participate in establishing a roadmap for the Agile transformation along with the sponsors and driving its implementation across multiple teams (called squads, in the Spotify model which we use).
• Facilitate estimation and planning, daily progress, customer reviews, demos and retrospective sessions with teams.
• Coach and facilitate continuous improvement efforts by the squads, by implementing take away from retrospectives and implementing concrete solutions to make the squads more efficient and improve delivery success.
• Conduct sessions with teams around Agile overview, processes, and practices, writing user stories, estimation, backlog refinement, as required. The approach should be creative, innovative, and effective to ensure concepts are understood by the team.
• Provide insights into areas for improvements with a focus on outcomes and with the objective of establishing a culture of autonomous management as well as self-improvement in individuals and squads.
• Be involved in multiple projects throughout the company and should be flexible enough to do this successfully.
• Have the ability to take initiative and apply critical thinking techniques to analyze problems, develop solutions or manage risk

Job Specification

• Experience in a scrum master role
• Familiarity with software development
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Crystal, XP etc.)
• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Degree in Computer Science, Business or similar field
• Scrum master certification is a plus