Job title: Scrum Master
Duration:1 year (contract)
Location: Remote is fine

Key Skills Required: Experience with Agile and Agile ceremonies; Jira Management; Project Management and Data Governance

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its daily and iteration objectives
• Support the teams focus on delivery of high-quality stories on a predictable, sustainable cadence
• Facilitate the teams assessing and planning for risk
• Ensure agreed upon Agile methodology principles and practices are understood and enacted.
• Coach Agile team in self-organization and cross-functionality and promote Agile mindset
• Provide visibility to impediments to the Agile Team's progress that the team cannot remove themselves
• Facilitate the team's relationship with outside stakeholders
• Facilitate conversations between Product Owner and team in regard to rebalancing and reprioritizing work within a sprint
• Ensure Product Owner has backlog prioritized for each iteration
• Protect the team from interruptions and distractions to clear a path for throughput
• Facilitate ceremonies/team meetings and ensure time-boxed events stay within their allotted time
• Continuously learn new approaches to facilitation, Agile best practices and how to improve team dynamics
• Foster a positive environment for the Agile team to continually improve and learn
• Drive cross Capability coordination and scheduling with other Scrum Masters
• Coordinate with other Scrum Masters, the System Team, and Shared Resources during ART/Cross-train Quarterly Planning and Release Planning Meetings to remove issues and raise risks, as appropriate
• Track and utilize agreed upon metrics to drive meaningful conversations and improvement opportunities

Required Skills:

• Deep understanding of Agile development frameworks, specifically Scrum, Kanban and Large-Scale Scrum
• Demonstrated understanding of technology systems and the Technology ecosystem
• Demonstrated ability to understand business needs
• Proven ability to pull together individuals of varying technical and business abilities with different goals and facilitate productive discussion and action
• Strong written and verbal communication, conflict resolution, and servant leadership skills
• Demonstrated understanding and reinforcement of the value of Agile mindset and the required iteration events
• Excellent facilitation skills and techniques

Educational Qualifications :

• Bachelors' degree in Business, Psychology, Anthropology, or Organizational Development with 2 years' additional relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree
• 3-5 years hands-on Scrum Master/Coach experience in advanced, large-scale Agile setting
• Certified Scrum Master and other Scrum certification desired
• Experience working with Jira or similar tool, building summary views, using agile planning boards, setting up dashboards preferred
• Familiarity or experience with other agile methodologies such as LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming preferred