Scrum Master - III

SGS Consulting; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

SGS Consulting in San Francisco (and nearby branches) invites a Scrum Master / Sr. Scrum Master to coach Agile teams, protect sprint goals, and remove impediments to improve delivery velocity.

You will facilitate sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives, coordinate with Product Owners and cross-functional teams, and drive continuous improvement across programs and Scrum-of-Scrum activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, IS, business, or related field.
• 5 years IT experience and 1 year scrum execution in IT/software.
• Familiar with agile methodologies and frameworks.
• Experience with Jira, Jira Align and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Coach and facilitate cross-functional Agile teams.
• Lead sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Remove impediments and protect sprint goals.
• Coordinate scrum-of-scrum across teams.
• Support release planning and backlog health.
• Track velocity, burn-down, and cycle time metrics.

Skills

Coaching

Scrum

Facilitation

Communication

Risk management

Education

Bachelor in CS/IS/Business or related

Tools

Jira

Jira Align

Confluence

Job description

Candidate can be located in San Francisco or any of the 12th district branches (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City).

Description:

As a Scrum Master / Sr. Scrum Master, you will be a key member of the Agile team, serving as a coach, mentor and facilitator of Agile practices. The Scrum Master/Sr. Scrum Master facilitates the scrum processes, protects the team from interference and helps remove impediments so that the team can deliver sprint goals and PI objectives. They foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous process flow, and relentless improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Plans, leads, organizes, and coaches one or more cross-functional teams on how to implement and improve Agile practices
• Leads the coordination and facilitation of sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review and retrospectives
• Acts as a primary communication hub between program and product management teams and the application development team to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time
• Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution by encouraging transparency and building trust among team members
• Works with Product Owners and Managers to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution
• Partners with program and release managers in production deployment activities
• Leads the development, analysis, tracking, and communication of team's agile adoption and progress metrics, including velocity, burn-down, cycle time, and other quality metrics.
• Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team
• Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner, and other scrum teams.
• Manages and resolves dependencies across scrum teams.
• Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution
• Drives cross-functional projects of medium to complex projects
• Coaches the agile team on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition
• Coaching the team on how to implement and improve its Agile practices
• Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities
• Works with other Scrum Masters in coordinating scrum-of-scrum activities across teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
• 5 years of IT work experience and 1 year of scrum execution in an IT or software development setting
• Knowledge of multiple agile development methodologies and frameworks
• Understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Leading teams
• Experience using agile tools, including Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence