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Senior Scrum Master
Audubon, PAJPC Partners is looking for a Sr Scrum Master that will:
- Act as the Scrum Master for multiple product teams using an agile methodology in the execution of software development projects
- Organize each team’s product backlog to ensure product teams and management have a clear view of progress and priorities
- Facilitate product teams in the review, estimation, and planning of software development efforts for the upcoming quarter
- Collaborate with the product owner and the core team to prioritize work based on company goals and objectives
- Organize sprint planning meetings to review the product backlog, ensure stories have adequate detail, and identify user stories to be included in upcoming sprints
- Conduct sprint review meetings to review the scope and functionality delivered in the previous sprint
- Organize sprint retrospectives to document lessons learned and implement process improvements. Ensure the team abides by the scrum rules and guidelines.
- Hold daily scrum meetings to allow each team to synchronize their work and communicate issues and roadblocks to the product owner
- Empower each product team and remove roadblocks to ensure continuous progress
- Assist product owners in maintaining product backlogs by facilitating backlog grooming sessions
- Work effectively as part of the scrum team to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines
- Establish a sense of urgency to complete tasks in a timely, cost-effective manner with top quality
- Maintain an exceptional level of customer focus centered on integrity and transparency
- Track metrics for each scrum team and make them available in company tools for reporting
- Actively listen and respond to the needs of the product teams and customers in a manner that provides value and generates significant customer satisfaction
- Recent, significant experience as scrum master facilitating multiple scrum teams working on enterprise software projects across business areas
- Experience working with dynamic, highly collaborative teams, requiring close consultation and coordination.
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Expert knowledge of Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Office applications
- Drive for results - Comfortable leading meetings, focusing team members on the task at hand and facilitating groups to reach consensus in a timely manner
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree
Preferred Skills:
- Advanced Degree
- Certified SCRUM Master and/or PMP
- Familiar with enterprise Java, .NET, Oracle, MS SQL
- Experience within utilities, pharma, banking, finance, insurance, or other highly transactional systems environment that produces very large amounts of data