The Sr. Scrum Master will manage project scopes, coordinate sprints, coach teams in Agile frameworks, facilitate communications, capture metrics for forecasting, and ensure deliverables meet quality standards. The role requires guiding development teams to higher maturity in Scrum and fostering a productive environment for product ownership.
Summary:
Plans, designs, develops and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools. Most companies should be able to match to a specific software development engineer position. Use this position if company does not breakout software development positions such as Software Engineer (Applications) (5141-5146) or Software Engineer (Systems) (5161-5166).
Duties & Responsibilities:
Job Description
- You will be playing a key role in the next-gen SaaS product and platform development.
- Manage each project’s scope and timeline
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
- Coach cross-functional product team members in Agile frameworks
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
- Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
- Capture metrics and team health data to improve forecasts and help the team maintain a sustainable pace.
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Crystal, XP etc.)
- Coaching and mentoring Scrum teams, Product Owners,
- and stakeholders to maximize the benefits of agile practices and resolve impediments.
- Help in facilitating coaching sessions on Agile process, Scrum process across multiple projects who are adopting Agile methodologies in their streams.
- Help teams implement changes effectively
- Led multiple Scrum teams in the adoption and consistent application of Agile and Scrum practices, ensuring alignment with project goals and milestones.
- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
- Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
- Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it
Additional Job Description
- Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer or equivalent
- 8 + years of experience in Scrum Master Role
- Significant proficiency/in-depth knowledge in the domain (technology and/or products)
- Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Scrum master certification is needed
- Thorough understanding of software development and/or support methodologies, principles and procedures and related software management tools.
- Experience with Telecom Product development with TMF standards preferred
- Experience building scalable SaaS platform clear advantage.
Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:
Top Skills
Agile
Scrum
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