Senior Scrum Master

UST; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

UST in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to coach and facilitate Agile teams within the P&T Transformation Management groups. You will drive SAFe practices, remove impediments, and enable productive collaboration with Product Owners, Technical Product Managers, and developers.

The role emphasizes servant leadership, PI and sprint planning, and continuous improvement through retrospectives. A Scrum Master Certification is preferred.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Agile development, including coaching on agile methodologies.
• Extensive knowledge of IT concepts, strategies, methodologies, architectures, and technical standards.
• Demonstrated success coaching a team and stakeholders on Agile practices and ensuring adherence to Agile methodology.
• Strong facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Enjoys solving problems and is able to resolve conflicts through strong mediation skills.
• Communicates clearly and has the ability to deliver complex messages and teach new concepts.
• Coaching and mentoring a team to maximize progress and potential.
• Motivated and driven, with the ability to influence and drive teams to success using Agile, Scrum, and Lean practices.
• Proven leadership experience in achieving successful project outcomes.
• Negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teamwork in and across teams and organizations.
• Strong ability to identify potential issues and dependencies early.
• Fully committed to transparency in all situations.

Responsibilities

• Help teams self-organize and self-manage.
• Apply practical interpretation and implementation of SAFe agile best practices, tailoring them to fit P&T practices.
• Accountable for performing all STAR scrum of scrum meetings with TEQ.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, estimation, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, burndown tracking, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Work collaboratively with Product Owners, Technical Product Managers, cross-functional development teams, and Project Managers to support development and software delivery.
• Assist the Product Owner and Technical Product Manager in user story creation, prioritization, and product backlog grooming via emergent requirements.
• Ask difficult questions, remove impediments, make issues and problems visible, and escalated as necessary.
• Ensure the development team is working efficiently towards Sprint goals.
• Coach the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Ensure cross-functional coordination (analysts, developers, and testers) is occurring early and often.
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practices.
• Identify and manage issues and risks with a clear grasp of the challenges and options until resolved.
• Mitigate all risks and issues in real time, executing resolutions on demand.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with diverse teams and personalities during high-pressure scenarios and within extremely tight deadlines.
• Apply proficiency in Agile technology practices (e.g., Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration).
• Analyze project issues and challenges and proactively define alternatives.
• Work closely with delivery teams to establish expectations and ensure tasks remain on track.
• Manage budget.

Skills

Agile coaching

Facilitation

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Scrum Master Certification

Job description

Senior Scrum Master

The Role

The Scrum Master is responsible for being a Coach, Facilitator and Servant Leader for their assigned Agile Scrum team(s) within the P&T Transformation Management teams. This role will be able to apply SAFe principles when facilitating, enabling and coaching aligned teams. The Scrum Master ensures that the agreed upon agile processes are being followed by the team and creates balance with the Product Owner and the Technical Product Manager. Foremost, they are a servant leader and ensures the team has the resources they need, are shielded from distractions and interruptions and works to remove impediments along the way. The Sr. Scrum Master will be responsible for facilitating PI planning and sprint planning sessions, budget and sprint status reporting (burn/churn/velocity/etc) fully leveraging the TMO sprint management tools. Lastly this role requires a passion for continual improvement, and makes recommendations for process optimization as influenced by iteration retrospectives and team feedback.

What You'll Do

• Help teams self-organize and self-manage.
• Apply practical interpretation and implementation of SAFe agile best practices, tailoring them to fit P&T practices.
• Accountable for performing all STAR scrum of scrum meetings with TEQ.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, estimation, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, burndown tracking, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Work collaboratively with Product Owners, Technical Product Managers, cross-functional development teams, and Project Managers to support development and software delivery.
• Assist the Product Owner and Technical Product Manager in user story creation, prioritization, and product backlog grooming via emergent requirements.
• Ask difficult questions, remove impediments, make issues and problems visible, and escalated as necessary.
• Ensure the development team is working efficiently towards Sprint goals.
• Coach the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Ensure cross-functional coordination (analysts, developers, and testers) is occurring early and often.
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practices.
• Identify and manage issues and risks with a clear grasp of the challenges and options until resolved.
• Mitigate all risks and issues in real time, executing resolutions on demand.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with diverse teams and personalities during high-pressure scenarios and within extremely tight deadlines.
• Apply proficiency in Agile technology practices (e.g., Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration).
• Analyze project issues and challenges and proactively define alternatives.
• Work closely with delivery teams to establish expectations and ensure tasks remain on track.
• Manage budget.

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

What You Need

Required

• 7+ years of experience in Agile development, including coaching on agile methodologies.
• Extensive knowledge of IT concepts, strategies, methodologies, architectures, and technical standards.
• Demonstrated success coaching a team and stakeholders on Agile practices and ensuring adherence to Agile methodology.
• Strong facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Enjoys solving problems and is able to resolve conflicts through strong mediation skills.
• Communicates clearly and has the ability to deliver complex messages and teach new concepts.
• Coaching and mentoring a team to maximize progress and potential.
• Motivated and driven, with the ability to influence and drive teams to success using Agile, Scrum, and Lean practices.
• Proven leadership experience in achieving successful project outcomes.
• Negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teamwork in and across teams and organizations.
• Strong ability to identify potential issues and dependencies early.
• Fully committed to transparency in all situations.

Preferred

• Scrum Master Certification

Location & Compassion

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.

Role Location: Atlanta, GA

Compensation Range: $80,000 - $120,000

Who We Are

Since 1999, UST has worked side by side with the world's best companies to make a powerful impact through transformation. Headquartered in the United States, UST is powered by technology, driven by AI, inspired by people, and led by our purpose