Senior Scrum Master

MRO; Norristown (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Senior Scrum Master to foster a data-driven environment within a high-performing Scrum Team. With responsibilities ranging from team health tracking to driving incremental improvements, this role emphasizes collaboration and successful value delivery. Ideal candidates have a strong background in Agile practices and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Scrum Master with Agile teams is essential.
• Strong ability to communicate with all organizational levels.
• Experience mentoring junior Scrum Masters.

Responsibilities

• Foster a data-driven, high-performing Scrum team.
• Partner with Product Owner for backlog refinement.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies effectively.

Skills

Communication

Conflict resolution

Agile techniques

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

ADO

Job description

As a Senior Scrum Master, you will work within a highly autonomous Scrum Team. who is part of a highly aligned technology organization. We are looking for Scrum Masters who are enthusiastic about solving problems across the organization as we continue to develop the Agile mindset, culture and excellence in all areas.

In this Scrum Master role you will be at the forefront of fostering a data-driven, high performing Scrum Team. Within the Scrum Team, you will aid in driving team health, delivery and recommendations on incremental improvements based on data. This role will work across departments to aid in reaching value delivery success!

ESSENTIAL TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Foster a data-driven, high performing team
• Introduces practices to improve Agile mindset
• Champions data-driven incremental improvement
• Aids team in achieving value delivery
• Proactively removes impediments and blockers and enables teams to do likewise
• Partner in driving team health as part of an organizational culture of collaboration and growth
• Tracks metrics for delivery & Accelerate data
• Actively look at data, understand the data and take steps towards improving based on data
• Create transparency of outcomes by using data to show results of team improvement experiments
• Stays ahead of the Scrum Team, proactively ensuring pieces are in place to execute
• Support team toward successful value-driven deliveries with consistency and predictability in achieving Sprint Goals and team-driven outcomes
• Drive team to define and execute on definition of done
• Partners with Product Owner to ensure backlog is adequately refined and healthy
• Partner with Engineering Leadership to drive incremental improvements and conflict resolution to improve team effectiveness
• Ensure team data and dashboards are updated, accurate and effectively used by the team to take appropriate actions (ADO Boards, Confluence, etc.)
• Facilitates ceremonies and events, ensuring events are productive, effective, and timeboxed

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Computer Science or the equivalence of experience.
• Scrum Master experience with an Agile Scrum Team a must.
• Demonstrated GO-TO for Agile techniques and processes.
• Excellent track record for fostering high-performing Scrum Teams.
• Excellent track record for driving data driven team health.
• Strong ability to communicate with all levels of the organization, verbally and written, advocating for team and organizational needs through data, and escalating issues as needed.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with other departments to resolve issues.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior Scrum Masters.
• Skilled in conflict resolution.
• Experienced with ADO.
• CSM (Certified Scrum Master), A-CSM or CSP-SM a plus.

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