Scrum Master

Title: Scrum Master

Duration: 6 to 12 months+

Location: Paramus, NJ

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Doing everything possible to ensure delighting customers

• Ability to Handle multiple agile projects at once

Experience with the Ecommerce Required

• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum and practices and values to delight customers

• Guiding the team on how to get the most of out self organization

• Guiding the team on self organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks

• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example

Required Skills/Experience

• Scrum Master certification

• 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.

• Experience with Kanban agile approaches and knowledge of other approaches like XP, Crystal, FDD, etc.