Job Description: 

• The Senior Scrum Master will play a key role in on the Smart Processing Orchestration Utility in Digital Utility Technology organization. 
• The Scrum Master is expected to provide effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership and coaching skills supporting the agile development process and delivery of our applications. 
• As an agile expert, the Scrum Master will be responsible for enforcing the agile tenants as interpreted by our team, removing impediments and promoting empowerment. 
• The Scrum Master position is highly responsible and accountable and will challenge the teams and strive for improving agile best practices. 
• The scrum master is also expected to facilitate SAFE Agile ceremonies. 
• This position requires technical understanding of software development and technology. 
• This position also requires good time management skills and the ability to be a scrum master for two to three teams

• Support agile based SDLC for software development creating necessary standards, tools and best practices

• Participate and support development and software delivery

• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting

• Organize and facilitate PI Planning as part of Safe Program Ceremonies

• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

• Maintain process documentation

• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility

• Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs.

• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to leading practices

• Support the development managers and project leads as necessary

• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition

• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal

• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution

• Empower the teams to self-organize

• Improve the productivity of the sprint teams

• Ensure the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable

• Participate in the organization and planning of the development schedule based on methodology that has been developed to create a cohesive plan with identifiable platform dependencies, and major milestones, and manages the agreed project user stories and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters

• Adapting project scope, schedules, and resource assignments as required throughout projects to respond to emerging requirements and risks