Technical Scrum Master

Job Description

• Be accountable for the end-to-end planning and execution of one or more projects and/or Agile teams.
• Understand product strategy and benefits of key deliverables in his/her area of responsibility
• Facilitate the team's Scrum ceremonies, i.e. Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog grooming.
• Liaise with the Product Owner and the Business Analysts in order to ensure completeness and clarity of user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Guiding the team on the Agile Scrum methodology in order to constantly improve the Scrum team's standards of work.
• Managing relationships and communicating with the project sponsor, senior management and other project contributors
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and drive those from idea to implementation.
• Leading and coaching the organisation in its Agile adoption and promoting delivery of business value
• Collaborating with the Product Owner to ensure backlogs are groomed and maintained
• Organising and facilitating daily stand-ups, requirement estimation, sprint & release planning, demos, retrospectives and other related team meetings
• Tracking and reporting of all relevant team performance metrics to ensure organisational. transparency, including but not limited to team velocity, sprint & release status
• Experience leading multiple (2+) teams concurrently, with direct responsibility for tracking & reporting on key metrics
• Demonstrated ability to apply best practices re: backlog management, capturing burndown &velocity metrics and task-level definition/estimation
• Partner with Product Owners to understand key business objectives and strategy, develop backlog and prioritize their stories.
• Track progress of team performance utilizing appropriate metrics and foster adoption of a high-performing Agile culture working closely with the organizations Agile leadership.
• Stand up new Agile teams and facilitate their formation and effectiveness.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• A minimum of 6-9 years of experience in the software field with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in an agile environment.
• Experience as a Scrum Master for a commercial software development team that was diligently applying Agile principles, practices, theory and Scrum Values. CSM certification is a plus.
• Experience with Jira or other tools utilized in an agile development environment.
• Experience in Handling networking based Projects
• Knowledge in Networking &Security Basics: OAuth/JWT, AD/LDAP,
• OSPF/BGP.EIGRP, CLI/NETCONF, etc.
• Good skills and knowledge of openness, servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.