Scrum Master: Lead Agile Delivery & Team Growth

Universal Studios; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Universal Orlando Resort is seeking a Scrum Master to facilitate agile development across multiple teams and ensure adherence to the Universal Scrum Framework. You will guide teams toward continuous improvement, remove impediments, and coordinate with Release Train Engineers to integrate with other teams.

The role requires strong facilitation, communication, and coaching skills, plus experience with CI/CD, story mapping, and agile planning techniques.

Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master to lead Agile software development
• Experience guiding teams to effectively write/split/map stories
• Understanding of basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by IT.
• Ability to develop, plan, manage or execute projects or work plans to ensure successful completion
• Demonstrated knowledge of test driven development
• Experience with CI/CD processes related to Scrum
• Experience with relative estimation, retrospective, and agile release planning techniques
• Must be self-motivated, well-organized and have strong innovation and facilitation skills.
• Proven oral, written, and business presentation skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to interface effectively with Release Train Engineer(s) and all levels and across organizational lines, including business units.
• Ability to effectively utilize external vendors and resources throughout the organization.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate agile ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives and sprint demos. Work with the Release Train Engineer to integrate efforts, other teams. Consult with the Product Owner to validate and communicate team priorities. Guide, coach and motivate the team with the goal of increasing productivity.
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to drive end value
• Serve as the team’s Scrum expert. Guide the team toward improving the way they work. Remove impediments to help the team reach an optimum, sustainable velocity.
• Leads the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Foster accountability, transparency, and regularity in status updates. Remove impediments external to the team. Ensure that the Agile tracking system is always up to date to reflect the current state.
• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Communicate and ensure alignment of priorities with Program stakeholders and within the team.
• Build and support a trusting and safe environment where challenges are address proactively with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating the right information the teams need at the right time.
• Remove impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

Skills

Certified Scrum Master

Story mapping

Software basics

IT technologies

Project planning

Test driven development

CI/CD

Agile estimation

Facilitation

Presentation skills

Analytical

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Education

Associate's degree

Bachelor's degree

CSM

SSM

CSPO

ACP

SA

Tools

Certified Scrum Master

Job description

Universal Orlando Resort is seeking a Scrum Master to facilitate agile development across multiple teams and ensure adherence to the Universal Scrum Framework. You will guide teams toward continuous improvement, remove impediments, and coordinate with Release Train Engineers to integrate with other teams.

The role requires strong facilitation, communication, and coaching skills, plus experience with CI/CD, story mapping, and agile planning techniques.