Senior Scrum Master

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Company: Avani Technology Solutions, Inc.

Location: Portland, OR 97229

Description:

Responsibilities

Operates as a team-based servant leader in service to the team's needs.
Ensures the team is practicing Agile principles.
Partners with, coaches and supports Product Owner in managing the backlog to ensure it is properly prioritized and appropriately sized.
Facilitates all of the Scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, demos).
Establishes, tracks and communicates agile metrics (such as team velocity and sprint progress/burn down chart) to team, management and any impacted stakeholders.
Facilitates alignment and assists Product Owner and Delivery Team with making appropriate commitments.
Identifies, removes and/or escalates risks, roadblocks and cross team dependencies that are unresolvable by the team and interfere with the team's ability to deliver commitments.
Accountable for promoting continuous improvement by coaching the team to use metrics to identify and measure progress.
Participates with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization and cross-scrum collaboration on delivery execution.
Continuously learns new approaches to facilitation, agile best practices and how to improve team dynamics.
Helps the Team to focus on delivery of high quality stories on a predictable, sustainable cadence.

Skills

In-depth understanding of Agile Principles and how they're applied in workplace culture
Strong facilitation and coaching skills within teams and groups
Experience resolving issues across teams
Effective communication, team dynamics, conflict resolution, mentoring, and servant leadership skills
Sufficient understanding of technology systems and the team's ecosystem to help team overcome roadblocks

Qualifications

Minimum 5 years relevant work experience supporting or leading a team
Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools
Familiarity or experience with other agile methodologies such as LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming etc.
Relevant certification in the field preferred (examples below)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
- Agile Scrum Master (ASM)
- Scrum Master Certified (SCM)