Our client is Fortune 500 company. As a leading business-to-business organization, more than 3.2 million customers rely on its products in categories such as safety, material handling and metalworking, along with services like inventory management and technical support.
Responsibilities:
- Follows the Agile Values and Principles, the Scrum Master is responsible for sharing knowledge, guiding the teams and following the Scrum Framework
- Coordinates Sprints, from Iteration Planning through daily Scrum, including Iteration Reviews/Demos and Retrospectives
- Guides, motivates, removes barriers, and leads the team through problem solving activities
- Anticipates, resolves and escalates risks or issues to appropriate level of management for timely resolution to support earlier, incremental delivery of value
- Assesses the Scrum maturity of the team and organization, coaching the team to higher levels of maturity utilizing CI experiments and retrospective feedback at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
- Acts as front-line contact with the Product Owner, Dev Lead (Development Manager or BSM), and Project Manager on team and/or project related issues, responding to concerns with clear and concise feedback
- Collaborates with Product Owner and Technical Leaders to maintain a groomed, prioritized backlog is in place, taking sequencing, scope, and risk management into consideration
- Provides metrics (team performance, sprint burn downs, backlog assessments, quality measurement) to Project Managers, Program Managers, or Technical Leadership to assist with Release Planning and Forecasting activities
Requirements:
- Experience with agile/lean principles and practices
- Experience playing the ScrumMaster role for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory (see table below for guidance per level)
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Keen critical-thinking skills
- Experienced with story mapping, story sketching decomposing work, estimating techniques such as planning poker
- Experience with scope control and change management processes, policies, and principles
- Demonstrated solid influencing skills
- Interacts effectively with Teammates and business partners makes persuasive and informative presentations
- Some experience in effectively navigating a highly matrixed organization
- Excellent written, verbal, and electronic communication skills
- Experience with Agile management tools (i.e., Jira, Rally, Mingle, Pivotal Tracker)
Nice to have: First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)
We offer:
- Flexible hours approach
- Competitive salary and compensation package
- 18 business days of payable annual free-time
- 10 days of paid sick leave
- Personal education budget
- Membership of the IT-BPO club card, loyalty program.
- Gym, Masseur, and Doctor
- Relax zones
Fun:
- Corporate events and outstanding parties
- Team buildings
- Anniversary presents