Location -Santa Clara, CA , PST hours, Remote till covid
Senior Scrum Master Key responsibilities –
• Facilitates & support daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint Grooming, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
• Work closely with Product Owners to drive Sprint Grooming and to ensure backlog items are properly and fully defined and groomed prior to acceptance into a sprint
• Ensure that Scrum is understood, and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines
• Manage the projects and facilitates sprint releases
• Drive sprint executions, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
• Thrives in lean, dynamic environments with competing priorities and leads the team in identifying the right priorities and focus.
• Able to do post-mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
• Coaching leaders, teams and stakeholders on technical and non-technical agile practices
• You coach and mentor the teams in Agile methodologies and communication skills to make sure that everybody can reach their full potential and the teams are running smoothly
• Share and learn best practices with peers to increase the effectiveness of the application of agile practices in the organization
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program Implement and support principles, rules, and processes Key Skills
• works with the right sense of urgency. • ability to bring different teams together to work as one
• good experience in agile methodology, Jira tool , Scrum techniques and good understanding of managing infra initiatives thinks ahead and across
– identifying dependencies and proactively works to document and work through them with the appropriate teams
• anticipates bumps in the road and guides to avoid them
• work with our teams to bridge waterfall foundation to agile
– not just being willing to work in agile framework, but also how to represent their roadmaps, timelines, plans, commitments
• easily work across all levels • willing to accommodate the 3 time zones (PST, IST, and EMEA) • Minimum 7 years of scrum master experience