Job Description :
Title: Scrum Master

Location: Beaverton, OR
Duration: 11 – 12 Months

Description:
Client Digital Engineering Technology group seeks a Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering world-class products within complex digital environments to advance our platform and applications.
Our ideal candidate will bring a broad range of lean and agile experiences working within large-scale organizations with specific knowledge working with digital technologies and processes at scale.

Responsibilities:
- Guiding the development of an agile team into an effective delivery unit with a sustainable cadence
- Ensuring the team’s process evolves within organizational guidelines and standards of practice
- Must be able to nurture self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring
- Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and processes
- Excellent communicator, able to gain the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and management
- Able to resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation
- Must be willing and able to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution
- Must be able to facilitate the development process
- Uphold and defend, as well as coach and mentor, agile values and principles as expressed in the Agile Manifesto
- Skilled at creating a fully transparent development process
- Capable of being a scrum master for one to three scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work
- Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, retrospectives and sprint reviews
- Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed
- Assist the team with implementing effective agile disciplinary practices
- Ensure cross-team coordination
- Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal
- Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and help the team see how they are doing

Qualifications:
- 5+ years of relevant IT experience including strong understanding of customer/stakeholder relationships, business analysis, prioritization, estimation and capacity management
- Must have a thorough understanding of iterative/incremental software development
- Complete understanding of agile processes such as Scrum, XP and Kanban
- Must have recognized education in agile processes, certifications preferred
- Must have been a member of an agile team for at least 2 years
- Able to lead a team to make realistic and achievable delivery commitments
- Understand agile metrics and reporting techniques
- Experience to explain and promote agile engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous delivery, TDD, BDD and refactoring preferred
- Experience using Jira to track and make visible sprint backlog work flow preferred

Skills:
Required
Business analysis
Capacity management
Continuous improvement
Estimation
Kanban

Additional
Mentor
mentoring
metrics
software development
cadence
jira
large-scale
solutions
structured software
Work Flow

Education:
- Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience
             

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