Our Corporate office is looking for a Scrum Master to join our engineering organization in the Dallas, TX area. This is a permanent, full time position.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Foster a culture of collaboration, creativity and innovation
• Promote team accountability
• Participate and support engineering and software delivery
• Empower and encourage teams to self-organize
• Organize and facilitate stand-up, review, retrospective, planning, grooming and any other scrum related meetings
• Facilitates Scrum of Scrums ceremony to identify & track dependencies and program impediments & risks
• Assist with internal and external communication as necessary
• Communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and help drive improvement with other scrum masters and IT PM
• Coordinate with vendors where appropriate
• Identify and remove impediments to prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Ensure the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable
• Collaborate with appropriate teams to plan releases and manage a healthy product backlog
• Responsible for managing complex programs with multiple cross team integration points.
• Cultivate a team that recognizes the value of continuously inspect and adapt for areas of improvement
• Identify emerging best practices and opportunities to help continuously advance agile methods and practices to improve sprint team(s)
• Assess Agile Maturity (via Agile Maturity Model) and develop & implement action plan for improvement in agile maturity

Requirements:

• Previous experience as a Scrum Master for software engineering teams
• Motivated, high performer, with demonstrated ability to influence and lead
• Practical experience scaling Scrum and partnering with other teams to monitor cross team dependencies
• Experience with the JIRA issue tracking system is a plus
• Expertise in Agile / Scrum development methodologies & tools (Jira / MSTeams…).
• Detailed understanding of software development lifecycle and agile software development practices
• Participates and/or leads Scrum Master Community of Practice or Scrum of Scrum; as well as mentors other Scrum Masters
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrable achievement in transitioning a team into Scrum and increasing adoption/maturity over time
• Ability to self-motivate and work independently with limited supervision
• Strong organization and time management skills
• Preferred to hold a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification