Scrum Master - Diverse Lynx
Scottsdale, AZ
About the Job
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
Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.