Scrum Master

Wiweeki • Reston, VA

6d

About The Position

This role is responsible for building high-performing teams focused on constantly improving team dynamics and performance using Agile and Compliance Metrics. Responsible for ensuring teams live Agile values and principles and follows processes and practices that the teams agree they will use within Agile (i.e Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.) frameworks to self-organize while delivering value to customers. The Scrum Master is a true leader and champions the Agile mindset through effective guidance, coaching, education and through removal of impediments to team progress. Provides hands-on facilitation of major Agile ceremonies across multiple development teams; consults with and advises teams (including the Product Owner) to support a smooth working transition to Agile practices. Enables continuous improvement and facilitates communication across teams to proactively manage dependencies and remove impediments and establish standards for Agile processes and tools. Supports and educates product owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making. Influences and facilitates the empowerment of a self-organizing team. Schedules and facilitates cross-functional meetings. Ensures appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports effectively provide transparency on team’s progress/productivity per Enterprise standards. Performs risk, issue, and dependency management for their teams and ensures compliance with company and regulatory policies and procedures. Ensures release management practices align to enterprise standards and leverages existing change management routines as needed. Acts as Agile SME to teams, product owners, and management. Embraces continuous learning by participating in Scrum Master Community of Practice. For technology related efforts: Understands release-when ready, test-driven development, continuous integration, product demonstration and other technical engineering practices and encourages teams to leverage them. Adheres to Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) processes, procedures, controls, standards, tools and templates (as required). Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of driving Agile Ceremonies and projects in Institutional Business or Private Equity related Business
• 7 years of relevant experience in process improvement, project management, software engineer, or business/requirements analysis to include relevant work experience with Agile/Scrum
• Knowledge of multiple Agile delivery frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, XP, Lean, SAFe, DevOps)

Responsibilities

• Building high-performing teams focused on constantly improving team dynamics and performance using Agile and Compliance Metrics
• Ensuring teams live Agile values and principles and follows processes and practices that the teams agree they will use within Agile frameworks to self-organize while delivering value to customers
• Acting as a leader and championing the Agile mindset through effective guidance, coaching, education and through removal of impediments to team progress
• Providing hands-on facilitation of major Agile ceremonies across multiple development teams
• Consulting with and advising teams (including the Product Owner) to support a smooth working transition to Agile practices
• Enabling continuous improvement and facilitating communication across teams to proactively manage dependencies and remove impediments
• Establishing standards for Agile processes and tools
• Supporting and educating product owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making
• Influencing and facilitating the empowerment of a self-organizing team
• Scheduling and facilitating cross-functional meetings
• Ensuring appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports effectively provide transparency on team’s progress/productivity per Enterprise standards
• Performing risk, issue, and dependency management for their teams and ensuring compliance with company and regulatory policies and procedures
• Ensuring release management practices align to enterprise standards and leveraging existing change management routines as needed
• Acting as Agile SME to teams, product owners, and management
• Embracing continuous learning by participating in Scrum Master Community of Practice
• Encouraging teams to leverage technical engineering practices such as release-when ready, test-driven development, continuous integration, and product demonstration
• Adhering to Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) processes, procedures, controls, standards, tools and templates (as required)
• Ensuring risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed