Scrum Master | Permanent Remote Set Up

Location: 
BGC, Taguig
Contract Type: 
Permanent
About the role: 
  • Coaches the team to create better Solutions, improve business results, and better their processes
  • Facilitates team meetings, including:
  1. Backlog Refinement
  2. Iteration Planning
  3. Daily Stand-Up (DSU)
  4. Iteration Review
  5. Iteration Retrospective
  • Facilitates program events (as coordinated with the RTE/ Program Leadership)
  • Removes impediments and barriers to the team's progress
  • Protects the team from outside influence
  • Tracking and communicating agreed upon team metrics
  • Assists the team in implementing SAFe/ Hybrid Agile Models and working with other teams who may or may not be using SAFe
  • Fosters adoption of Agile technical practices
  • Coaches the team on the best ways to refine their backlog and create Stories
  • Ensure Development Team understands and maintains commitment to the Definition of Done (DoD)
  • Provides oversight for compliance to organizational standards (Security, CMMI, etc.) and best practices within the team 
  • Assists in coordinating remediation to gaps in compliance to organizational standards
  • Assists the PO in preparing and refining the backlog for PI and Iteration Planning
  • Help in Creation of Stories 
  • Assist in Keeping the Backlog Healthy 
  • Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items
  • Understanding product planning in an empirical environment
  • Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value
  • Coach the Product Owner to ensure the volume and flow of Product Backlog Items (user stories) towards the top of the Product Backlog are ready for the Sprint Backlog
  • Release Train Transparency
  • Coordinates with other Scrum Masters, the System Team, and shared resources in the ART PI Planning meetings
  • Works with the above teams throughout each Iteration and PI
  • Coordinates with other Scrum Masters and the Release Train Engineer (RTE) in Scrum of Scrums and/or ART Sync with the Product Managers/Product Owners
  • Fosters normalized estimating within the team
  • Helps teams operate under architectural and portfolio governance, System Level integration, and System Demos
  • Fosters adoption of Agile technical practices
  • Escalates team impediments to the RTE
Position requirements: 
  • 5 – 7 years' experience as Scrum Master
  • Scrum Master Certified (SSM, CSM, PSM) or similar
  • At least one SAFe certification preferred
  • Advanced Scrum Master Certification including SASM, CSP, RTE, SPC or similar certification preferred
  • Certification in another agile competency, such as product owner, developer, etc. preferred
  • Experience working in an Agile organization using Scrum, XP, Kanban, Scaled
  • Agile Framework (SAFe) or other scaling model is highly preferred
  • Servant leader and strong communicator with strong interpersonal skills 5+ years of experience working in a cross function Agile environment
  • 3+ years of experience engaging stakeholders, contributors and technical resources to analyze user needs and resource limitation
  • 3+ years of experience with facilitating discussions of complex, high value IT delivery projects that require the coordination of development work or technology work on multiple platforms to achieve desired functionality
  • Listen and support teams in problem-identification and decision making
  • Encourage an environment that values mutual respect, openness, and courage
  • Persuade by influence rather than authority
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