Senior Scrum Master & SAFe Agile Coach

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

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.