Scrum Master II

Cox Enterprises • Austin, TX

71d • $87,300 - $130,900

About The Position

As a Scrum Master, you will take ownership of developing scrum teams that deliver exceptional results to achieve business outcomes, irrespective of the challenges the team may encounter. Your team will use an inspect and adapt cycle to continuously improve the delivery of valuable, working software, and they will take complete responsibility for failures without looking for excuses. This team will have a laser focus on the creation of valuable, working software and will utilize a collaborative process that minimizes defects, rework, and time spent on work that will never contribute to delivering value to clients. The team will use sufficient and effective communication to create a shared consciousness of current state, desired state and a shared understanding of quality, value, and time to market goals. This team will set and consistently achieve sprint goals and all members of the team will experience work as both sustainable and challenging.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education.
• 2 - 5 years of working experience as a dedicated Scrum Master.
• Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), or Kanban.
• Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe.
• Scrum Master certification or equivalent certified professional.
• Must live within a commutable distance to the Austin TX office and be comfortable coming into the office multiple times a week.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Sciences, Computer Science, or a Master's degree in those fields would be a benefit, or a Masters in Psychology.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the pragmatic use of Agile ceremonies that produce the benefits intended by the agile framework and enable the organization to deliver products incrementally using inspect and adapt cycles.
• Actively identify, manage and communicate impediments to expedite resolution.
• Work with scrum master peers for coaching and mentoring on the scrum master role so you can grow in the role.
• Observation of team dynamics, to recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coach them to improve.
• Drive high performance and collaboration in teams that hold themselves accountable and interact constructively within the team and outside of the team with all members of the organization.
• Own the use of an accurate, complete, readable, single source for artifacts and workflow information that the organization needs in order to engage in continuous planning, observe/monitor work in progress, and quantify the inspect and adapt cycle at the scrum team level.
• Coach the team on writing user stories that ultimately enable scrum team focus and prioritization.
• Facilitate the identification of delivery focused solutions to address true root cause of issues.
• Own full alignment across dependent teams within a release train; manage risks and dependencies such that all parties are aligned with delivery strategy and sequence. Drive over-communication as necessary to ensure a shared understanding of dependencies.
• Drive scrum team accountability for ensuring the sprint commitment is less than / very close to the average velocity over the last five sprints, maximizing the likelihood of delivery on sprint commitments.

Benefits

• Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties.
• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
• Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision).
• Retirement planning (401(k)).
• Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Telecommunications
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees