Agile Scrum Master: Drive Team Excellence & Delivery

ECRS (ECR Software Corporation); Boone (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ECRS is seeking a Scrum Master to drive daily incremental improvement within Agile software development teams in the United States. You will coach, support, and partner with Product Owners and Technical Leads to facilitate planning, demos, and retrospectives.

You will define metrics, remove impediments, and ensure alignment with development leadership across multiple projects. The ideal candidate brings strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, plus a solid

Qualifications

• Four-year degree or equivalent prior experience in managing teams.
• Business or IT courses are a plus, but not required.
• Agile Scrum Master or Agile Coach Certification is a plus but can be earned during onboarding/training period.
• Demonstrable knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc. are a plus.
• Good communication, technical and people skills to coach teams on how to follow agile scrum.
• Strong knowledge or willingness to learn Scrum theory, rules, and practices.
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
• Strong understanding of timeline commitments and deliverables.
• Jira/Confluence experience.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with the flexibility to meet changing needs.

Responsibilities

• Willingness to learn or have prior knowledge of Agile Software Development and Scrum Framework.
• Make your assigned SCRUM teams better, through observing, orientating to reality, deciding, and creating actions that bring about measurable incremental improvement.
• Responsible for coaching and managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team.
• Collaborate with Development leadership to remove the impediments for the scrum teams.
• Work with Product Owner to facilitate sprint planning and sprint demos.
• Facilitate Sprint Retrospectives, determine appropriate action plan and hold team accountable.
• Collaborate with Development leadership to maintain the overall Development and DevOps activity planner.
• Schedule, arrange and lead daily stand-up meetings, meetings, demo, and decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
• Attends requirement specification meetings and helps define and create Epics, User-stories etc. to drive estimation and scheduling.
• Oversee the "quality-assisted" testing process within the sprint to ensure readiness for delivery to QA.
• Help product owners to keep the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
• Maintain and provide metric-based reports to measure and improve team effectiveness.
• Deliver results by creating value for our ECRS products, our customers, and team members.
• Coordinate with team Technical Lead to foster additional team skills, product knowledge and bench strength.
• Formalize and ensure a balanced distribution of workload for all team members.
• Collaborate with HR to provide career development to team members and address performance matters.
• Act like an Owner to deliver results, creating value for our ECRS products, our customers, and key stakeholders.

Skills

Emotional Intelligence

Facilitation of teams

Communication skills

Outcome oriented

Data driven

Stakeholder management

Willingness to learn

Education

Four-year degree or equivalent

Agile Scrum Master Certification

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

ECRS is seeking a Scrum Master to drive daily incremental improvement within Agile software development teams in the United States. You will coach, support, and partner with Product Owners and Technical Leads to facilitate planning, demos, and retrospectives.

You will define metrics, remove impediments, and ensure alignment with development leadership across multiple projects. The ideal candidate brings strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, plus a solid