Scrum Master

Job title:- Scrum Master
Location:- Richmond, VA 23219
Duration:- 12 Months
 
Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work through changing requirements and priorities, demanding deadlines, operational crisis situations, as well as being able to keep pace with multiple concurrent priorities and develop and implement long term goals and operating plans
• Ability to effectively navigate and achieve results that have cross-functional, cross-district and System impact
• Strong communication skills, including outstanding presentation and persuasion capabilities, including the ability to effectively convey complex, sensitive issues and communicate to a variety of audiences including technical staff, peers, as well as senior management, and oversight bodies
• Expertise in relationship management and an exemplary ability to manage stakeholder expectations through clear and transparent communications
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters with the appropriate level of judgment, discretion, and maturity
• Demonstrates mutual respect, embraces diversity, equity and inclusion, and acts with authenticity

 
Preferred Skills/Certifications:

• Knowledge of multiple agile development methodologies and frameworks
• Understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Leading teams
• CSM, SAFe, or equivalent certification

 
Responsibilities:
Scrum Master / Team Coach Responsibilities:

• Plans, leads, organizes, and coaches one or more cross-functional teams on how to implement and improve Agile practices
• Leads the coordination and facilitation of sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, iteration review and retrospectives
• Acts as a primary communication hub between program and product management teams and the application development team to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time
• Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution by encouraging transparency and building trust among team members
• Works with Product Owners and Managers to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution
• Partners with program and release managers in production deployment activities
• Leads the development, analysis, tracking, and communication of team's agile adoption and progress metrics, including velocity, burn-down, cycle time, and other quality metrics
• Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team
• Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner, and other scrum teams.
• Manages and resolves dependencies across scrum teams.
• Drives cross-functional projects of medium to complex projects
• Coaches the agile team on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition
• Coaches the team on how to implement and improve its Agile practices
• Partners with team in production deployment activities
• Works with other Scrum Masters in coordinating scrum-of-scrum activities across teams