Scrum Master

Daktronics•,

1d•$75,000 - $90,000•Remote

About The Position

Daktronics is seeking a Scrum Master to join their IT team, focusing on supporting internal customers and agile development teams. This role involves guiding teams in SAFe IT development processes, ensuring adherence, and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. The Scrum Master will facilitate communication, coordination, and collaboration within and between teams, manage dependencies on the Agile Release Train (ART), and ensure smooth execution of Scrum ceremonies and processes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business or technical field.
Two-five (2-5) years experience leading more than one scrum team.
Effective communication skills, including the ability to clarify expectations and lead a cross-functional group of people to achieve.
Demonstrated process flow understanding and experience in root cause analysis, along with lean problem-solving tools.
Continued willingness and desire to learn and be flexible with an evolving workload.
Strong self-motivation and ability to work independently or collaboratively on a team.
Ability to present ideas to a broad audience that can be easily understood.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to demonstrate collaboration with others and effective relationship development.
Effectively exercise discretion and independent judgment.
Fluent in English, written and verbal.
Applicants must be 18 years of age or older.
Daktronics does not sponsor, renew, or extend immigration visas for this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in a team environment using Agile methodologies is preferred.
Familiarity with Daktronics development processes is preferred along with experience with Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

Organize and manage various Scrum ceremonies, such as scheduling sessions, facilitating standups, grooming the backlog, storytelling, sprint retrospectives, planning, and demos.
Guide teams toward achieving their delivery objectives.
Conduct regular health checks for the team.
Support and coordinate tasks within the team and with other teams, ensuring adherence to agreed Scrum processes and rules.
Identify and address risks, impediments, and roadblocks for the team, escalating when necessary.
Lead activities focused on continuous improvement.
Facilitate the estimation and sizing of user stories.
Communicate updates from the team to the scrum-of-scrums and negotiate for additional resources when needed.
Lead the team through program increment planning.
Ensure all team members follow Scrum processes.
Work closely with the Product Owner to ensure user stories are clear and actionable for the development team.
Share information with different stakeholder groups, addressing their unique perspectives.
Provide clarity regarding task assignments and team capacity.
Promote continuous improvement by solving problems and implementing effective countermeasures.