Location
Greenwood Village, CO | United States
Job description
AVA Consulting is seeking a Scrum Master: II (Intermediate)
Location: Greenwood Village, CO (Hybrid)
U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.
Description:
The Scrum Masters job is to facilitate Agile team events & progress toward team goals, remove impediments to facilitate flow and coach to high performing teams. The SM is a key role within an Agile delivery team as it removes any impediments that obstruct a team's pursuit of its sprint goals and ultimately deliver a product that generates business value to client customers and associates.
Responsibilities:
- Accountable, along with the Agile team, for achievement of PI Objectives
- Track progress and help the team achieve their commitments. Progress is monitored daily when problems are identified work with team to develop corrective actions.
- Manage risk to delivery by raising / resolving impediments in a timely manner
- Ensure team members understand SAFe processes and support the team in following them.
- Ensure product quality expectations are defined and known across the team.
- Work with technical team and product owner balancing the interests of both when issues arise.
- Remove impediments allowing the team to focus on engineering tasks.
- Take the lead on resolving conflicts within the team removing any roadblocks to collaboration.
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum, refinement, retrospective and sprint review events.
- Facilitate retrospective discussions and support continuous improvement efforts.
- Management of external dependencies the team must deal with as identified.
- Maintain the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the Agile team to create a trusting and safe team environment
- Track & report team progress leveraging appropriate Agile metrics
- Cross-functional communication, ensuring transparency of progress and outcomes; report progress sand accomplishment up and across as requested/required
Qualifications:
- Degree - information technology or business or related field
- Exceptional people skills. Comfortable working with a diverse group of people and serve as arbitrator when conflicts arise.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Growth mindset, learning mindset, strategic thinking
- Facilitation skills
- Familiarity with modern software engineering techniques such as Continuous Integration, build, deliver, test-driven development and other automated acceptance testing techniques
- Highly collaborative, solid interpersonal skills and able to work with diverse personality types
- Motivate and enable the Agile teams to be self-organized
Experience:
- 2-5 years of Experience serving as Scrum Master
- Banking/Financial industry experience a plus
- Exp: 2 - 5. Experience: Relies on some experience to plan and accomplish tasks.
- Leadership/Contributions: May lead junior resources.
- Reports to: Manager.
- Advanced Degree or Certifications? Maybe.
NOTE: Interested Candidates can apply by sending their Updated Resume and Contact Details.
Ron Tolson
AVA Consulting
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- Position Id: AVA0777
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