Job Description :
Position: Scrum Master
Location; Cincinnati, OH
Duration: 6-12+ months
*remote while corona virus is still going on must come onsite right after virus is finished ( approx May/June)
skype interviews
*needs to have 13+ years experience in IT*
Required Skills and Experience:
5+ years’ experience serving as an active scrum master
Agile Certification (Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
Position Duties:
Facilitate team organization and ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, daily scrums/stand-ups, sprint/iteration reviews/demos and retrospectives)
Coach team members on Agile values/principles, such as collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and transparency
Identify and remove any impediments/distractions that interfere with the team’s ability to deliver against their commitments
Facilitate the creation and adoption of working agreements and definitions of done, including the use of appropriate tools, standards and best practices
Ensure the team tracks and communicates team progress and metrics to the appropriate audiences
Facilitate and enable an environment of collaboration and creativity, and empower the team to self-organize around achieving their commitments
Support/empower the team to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
Challenge and enable the team to continuously improve through intentional Lean and data driven inspect and adapt cycles (retrospectives)
Protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work, and ensure changes are evaluated/intentional
Promote quality practices to ensure components, services and applications delivered by the team meet performance expectations, allow for graceful degradation and are appropriately scalable (vertical or horizontal) for expected growth pattern
Escalate associate problems to the team lead/management