Essential Job Functions:

• Build a strong relationship with Product Owner and Technical Lead for a full functional leadership triangle
• Own and schedule daily stand-up and retrospective meetings
• Ensure Product Owner owns and schedules Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews
• Help with facilitation of all ceremonies
• Help team or individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them
• Resolve conflicts, focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect
• Ability to shield team from outside distractions and interferences
• Remove impediments, understand how and when to escalate issues to Leadership
• Ensure accuracy of agile metrics, holding team accountable for timely updates of pointing and status
• Effectively use metrics to plan, forecast, and communicate status
• Forecasting and aligning project budget with velocity and backlog sizing
• Excellent communication and emotional intelligence skills are needed in this fast pace Agile environment
• Servant-Leader – serve his/her team
• Ability to take and understand the commitment to deliver the product on time.

Requirements:

• 3 or more years of Project Management work experience.
• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery.
• Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
• Agile software experience such as CA Agile, JIRA, etc