Title: Scrum Master

Location: Indianapolis, IN (Hybrid / Remote)

Duration: Full-time / perm

Company: Bcforward

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as a Scrum Master for a data team on Data & Analytics ART.
• Experience in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is required.
• Assist in overall PI/Iteration planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood and modeled in roadmaps and timelines.
• Identify, document, and publish risks and issues related to the overall Program Increment and to define resolution paths where required.
• Resolve cross-team impediments and blocking issues.
• Collect and consolidate cross-team metrics for delivery to stakeholders and executive management.
• Schedule and conduct meetings and ceremonies in accordance with best practices for Agile/Scrum.
• Responsible for building team collaboration, commitment towards achieving sprint objectives and viewing team needs above everything else.
• Continuously work to improve team performance and productivity:
  • Encourage team accountability, self-organization, and empowerment.
  • Share common Agile practices.
  • Promote and support the development team’s automated processes.
  • Facilitate Retrospectives which generate new ideas for process improvement.
• Maintain relevant metrics that guide the development team to more efficient processes in their work and in satisfying their Product Owner and stakeholders.
• Maintain effective information radiators that aid transparency and encourage clear communication between the development team, the Product Owner, and stakeholders.
• Active participant in the BC forward SAFe ART CoP to share and learn new agile concepts.
• Coaching the Product Owner in best practices related to SAFe and Scrum.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required in a technical or business-related field or equivalent years of experience
• A SAFe Scrum Master Certification.
• 2+ years or more in a Scrum Master role.
• Demonstrated 5+ yrs of experience in delivering products and solutions.
• Technical knowledge of various data ideas and concepts is preferred.
• Experience as a Scrum Master within enterprise scale SDLC environments.
• Subject matter expert of Scrum in addition to extensive knowledge of other Agile development approaches and practices.
• Experience with Jira project management tool and implementation of best practices in Agile tools and workflows.

General Qualifications:

• Effective communicator with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be comfortable communicating with development teams, Product Owners, Product Management, Release Train Engineers, and Senior Management.
• Effective facilitation and conflict resolution skills – must be able to facilitate discussion of multiple approaches and drive resolution.
• Effective influencer, able to work upward and across teams to build rapport and partner with others to solve common problems.
• High level of personal accountability, as evidenced by their commitment, resilience, ownership, and mindset toward continuous learning.
• Continual improvement - must be constantly growing ones craft, learning new tools and techniques, and sharing these within and among teams.
• Assertive – must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, and make the tough calls.
• Ability to facilitate, understand, and contribute to technical discussions.
• High motivation and drive to help the ART and various teams to excel and deliver based on commitments and timelines.
• Understand that their role in the organization is broader than the details included in this job description.
• Excellent interpersonal skills – ability to work with diverse personality types.