Scrum Master - Diverse Linx

Job Title: Scrum Master

Location: Scottsdale, AZ//Onsite

Duration: Full Time-Only

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Roles & Responsibilities The Scrum Master will be responsible for supporting the agile transformation and successful delivery for one or more agile teams. They will provide leadership and coaching to the team(s) they support to encourage adoption of agile principles and practices while empowering the team to grow towards becoming self-organizing. They will work to establish a safe team environment to allow for solutions to emerge with a focus on problem solving.

Desired Traits:

Passionate about continually learning new tools and techniques to support the team and encourages others to do so

Proactive, with the ability to adjust or flex approach based upon the situation at hand

Ability to earn the team s respect and lead by example

Ability to promote and educate agile / Scrum concepts and principles at the team level

Ability to partner and build relationships across the organization to collaboratively achieve goals

Ability to facilitate and support discussion and conflict resolution at the team level

Ability to promote a safe environment for constructive dialogue to encourage continual growth and improvement

Ability to communicate effectively and concisely with team members, program team members, and stakeholders

Ability to guide a team with diverse personalities and approaches toward becoming self-organizing and self-managing

Key Responsibilities:

Act as a Scrum Master for one or more distributed agile teams

Support the team through servant leadership, leading by example

Establish, support and facilitate team level cadence and ceremonies such as iteration planning, daily stand up, retrospectives, backlog refinement, iteration review, etc.

Provide coaching and guidance to the team to support adoption of agile values, principles and practices.

Provide coaching and support to Product Owner in maintaining and refining product backlog.

Support Product Owner in prioritization and forecasting of roadmap based on team velocity and stakeholder requests.

Support the team in establishing realistic and achievable delivery commitments while operating at a sustainable pace.

Act as an accountability partner to support the team in predictably delivering upon their commitments.

Remove impediments and escalate in a timely manner as necessary.

Facilitate / support management of dependencies to ensure alignment of delivery.

Facilitate, encourage and support cross-team coordination and collaboration.

Act as a change agent and help to build and support a learning environment for continual growth.

Maintain metrics and data necessary to provide visibility on progress, quality and value to stakeholders.

Participate in and contribute to internal agile communities of practices and/or Scrum Master Forums.

Protects and Communicates. Communicates with Management and outside stakeholders. Helps protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work