Sr. Scrum Master

Spectraforce Technologies; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies is seeking an experienced Sr. Scrum Master for a 3-month engagement in Austin, TX.

The role is hybrid (4 days on site, 1 day WFH) and focuses on facilitating agile ceremonies, removing impediments, and guiding multiple scrum teams toward on-time, high-quality software releases. You will partner with product owners and stakeholders, coach teams on agile practices, and ensure consistent delivery across initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years Scrum Master Experience.
• Kanban experience would be a plus.
• Experience using Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) and maintaining Scrum Boards including feature break down to Epics, User Stories, Tasks and Subtasks.
• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values and procedures.
• Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
• Experience with agile on large, technically complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Organize and facilitate daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos.
• Influence team to adopt and follow agile practices.
• Interface with product owner and stakeholders to ensure on-time, quality delivery.
• Track dependencies, risks, and communicate progress; maintain docs.
• Identify and remove impediments; coach teams to self-organize.
• Coordinate scrum tools and ensure release readiness.

Skills

Certified Scrum Master

Team leadership

Communication

Coaching teams

Multi-team coordination

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Title: Sr. Scrum Master

Location: Austin, TX (hybrid 4 days on site, 1 WFH)

Duration: 3 months

What you are good at

• Execute on Scrum Master responsibilities that include organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other meetings
• Influence team members to leverage, follow and support agile software development practices
• Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget
• Track internal and external Project dependencies?
• Identify gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans
• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint/release progress and maintain process documentation
• Provide accurate and succinct updates and escalations (with business impacts)?
• Serve and support team by removing impediments and partnering with Senior Managers and Project Managers
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; Identify and remove impediments; prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal; Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Empower the teams to self-organize;?improve the productivity of the sprint teams;?ensure that the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable?
• Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally
• Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverable are synchronized as necessary to achieve product releases

What you have

• Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years?Scrum Master Experience
• Kanban experience would be a plus
• Experience using Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) and maintaining Scrum Boards including feature break down to Epics, User Stories, Tasks and Subtasks
• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values and procedures
• Must be an excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate
• Experience working with agile methodology on large scale, technically complex projects
• Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle
• Highly adaptable to changing environment
• Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
• Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential
• Must be self-motivated, well as creative, and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.?
• Must be collaborative in driving decisions and able to deal with multiple projects and deadlines
• Ability to hold team members accountable, set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, keep team engaged and on task.?
• Experience working in the financial industry and aware of basic financial concepts
• Experience taking Business requirement and writing technical requirement using BDD
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, written and verbal
• Self-starter, organized, ability to work on multiple projects and handle multiple scrum teams

Must Have

• Agile , person will be wearing muti hats on the team, scrum, release, and some program mgmt
• Release and scrum - top
• Some technical expertise will be helpful here
• Tools: jira, going towards rally (good to have)

Plusses

• IAM - understanding, identity and authentication - plus