The person in this role will act as Scrum Master for 2-3 teams and will promote Agile development practices and work across multiple stakeholders to identify and remove impediments.

We need Scrum Masters with a strong vision for creating the best workplace possible.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about getting the best out of individuals and teams through the power of self-organization.

Responsibilities For The Staff Scrum Master :

- Serve as subject matter expert on software development methods and processes

- Enable the Scrum teams to perform at the highest level by instilling Scrum values, coaching the team, removing impediments, and protecting the team from disruption

- Organize and facilitate team backlog management, daily scrum (standups), sprint reviews, retrospectives, demos, and other Scrum-related events

- Monitor, record, and communicate assigned team(s) KPIs/Metrics and ensure transparency regarding team achievements across internal stakeholders

- Identify and communicate impediments to team achievement to leadership while working to remove any barriers to deliver on committed work

- Assist Product Owner as needed with backlog maintenance, internal and external communication, improving transparency, and disseminating information

- Share Agile knowledge and best practices across the organization to maximize Scrum team performance and effectiveness

- Coach teams, individuals, and the organization in collaboration, transparency, iteration and be customer focused

- Create high-performing, self-organized teams that cant wait to get to work each day

- Challenge assumptions about how we work together and how we develop our product and collaborate with us to find a better way

- Build consensus through collaboration?and influences without authority

- Help to evolve a culture of high performance and innovation that allows people to thrive

- Cultivate a culture of learning and a thirst to learn faster than our competitors

Qualifications Of The Staff Scrum Master :

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, or equivalent

- 3+ years of working on a scrum team as a contributor (Developer, Product Owner, QA Engineer)

- 2 years as a Scrum Master

- Experience in coaching an organization at any level through the transition from waterfall to an agile framework

- Experience working in an environment where an agile framework was applied at scale

- Experience in a variety of Software Development Life Cycles (waterfall, iterative and agile)

- Attainment of one or more agile-related, scrum master focused certifications:

- Scrum Alliance: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Advanced CSM, Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM)

- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I-III)

- Certified Scrum Coach (CSC), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

- Experience with Atlassian tools, including JIRA and Confluence, preferred

- Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps, preferred

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities Of The Staff Scrum Master :

- Proficiency in Agile methods, including Scrum and Kanban

- Comfortable with the implementation and execution of Scrum in an environment where individuals are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with the methodology.

- Able to apply various techniques to ensure effective meetings both co-located and distributed

- Strong leadership skills and a history of leading through influence.

- Ability to work with diverse personality types.

- Collaborative approach to decision-making on teams.

- Ability to work under limited supervision.

- Ability to help existing leadership understand their changing role