Senior Scrum Master
About this position
Responsibilities
• Lead the scrum team in using Scrum methodology and scrum practices
• Helping the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction
• Lead the scrum team in self-organization
• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments
• Help the scrum and development teams to identify and fill in blanks in the Agile framework
• Resolve conflicts and issues that occur
• Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity
• Support the product owner and provide education where needed
• Once sufficiently trained and skilled, a great scrum master will protect the team from both internal and external negative factors
• Rapport on progress of the team performance and completion of deliverables
• Track and manage issues and risk related to the teams deliverables
• Document and manage key decisions impacting the teams work
• Track the deliverables against contract
Requirements
• Good command of written and spoken English
• 5+ years experience delivering agile and non agile projects as SM or Project Manager
• Experienced in managing project teams
• Thorough understanding of Agile and Scrum principles and their real-world execution
• Structured and very organized
• Great communication skills
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment
• Self-starter with ability to work independently and to prioritise work and stay focused in the middle of distraction
• Outstanding communication skills
• Experience with both Agile and Waterfall Project Management practices
• Scrum Master Certification is an advantage
• Project Management certification such as PMI or Prince is an advantage
• Experience working with enterprise clients, and big scale custom software projects