Summary: 

As a leader on the team, the Senior Scrum Master is accountable for building and evolving a positive, innovative culture and environment for the department that values trust, empathy, and draws out the best in people. The Senior Scrum Master is key to orchestrating program-level continuous agile improvement and adapting industry standard frameworks. The Senior Scrum Master consistently embodies the five Scrum values: focus, courage, openness, commitment and respect through behavior, communication and interpersonal interactions.

Remote work allowed. 

Required Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience; CSM certification required

Required Years of Experience: 5 or more years of experience as a SM in software development environment, or 8 years of experience in an Agile environment

Responsibilities:

• Coach one or more teams on applying Agile practices and values.
• Assess the current organization and delivery environment and recommend optimal Agile practices.
• Train, coach and mentor other Scrum Masters
• Facilitate planning sessions, reviews/demos and retrospectives.
• Work with multiple teams and with all levels of the organization to coach Agile principles and practices to influence change from the top-down as well as bottom-up.
• Promote opportunities across the organization to implement and maintain Agile processes that deliver desired outcomes in support of teams and the organization.
• Facilitate continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams.
• Foster team responsibility, accountability, transparency and self-organization.
• Leverage coaching skills to help teams solve its own problems.

Minimum Requirements:

• Demonstrated conflict-resolution skills
• Demonstrated ability to form positive working relationships with customers, peers, and team members.
• Excellent communication skills including written, verbal, and listening.
• Knowledge and use of industry-standard project methods, tools and techniques (burndown, velocity charts, metrics, etc.)
• Proficient in MS Office applications
• Experience with online collaboration tools (MS Teams, Zoom, etc.)
• Demonstrated problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
• Detail oriented
• Ability to reprioritize and multitask in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to obtain a clearance with the U.S. Government

• Experience with techniques used to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (examples: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs)
• Experience with the following: Scrum, Kanban, XP.
• Experience with Agile techniques including: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, and Agile Games.
• Experience using Atlassian tools.
• Experience with Salesforce Platform