Scrum Master

PulteGroup•Atlanta, GA

10d

About The Position

The Scrum Master oversees agile product teams and supports effective sprint planning, execution, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The role ensures teams understand business context, product vision, user stories, and sprint goals; helps establish working agreements and quality standards; removes impediments; and protects teams from interruptions. The Scrum Master facilitates agile ceremonies and workshops, coaches teams and employees on agile practices, and partners with product managers and product owners on backlog management and release planning. The role may require travel and includes other duties as assigned. This is a P4 career-level role with day-to-day objectives that have major impact on its area of responsibility. Work is performed with limited oversight. The position may manage large projects or processes, contribute to operational goals and planning, coach and guide other professionals, and provide input to products, processes, or standards. It requires deep subject-matter knowledge, typically gained through higher education and experience.

Requirements

Minimum high school diploma or GED; typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience.
Typically requires 6–8 years of prior relevant experience.
At least 3 years of Scrum/Agile experience and excellent working knowledge of agile frameworks, ceremonies, processes, roles, and responsibilities.
At least 3 years of experience collaborating with business stakeholders to deliver quantifiable business value.
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to build rapport, share findings, and explain tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Group facilitation skills and demonstrated ability to navigate conflict constructively.
Ability to facilitate conflict resolution while keeping a positive focus on team learning.
Excellent leadership and people skills, including the ability to influence, gain buy-in, and manage relationships across organizational levels.
Experience with Azure DevOps, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft SharePoint.
Organized, persuasive, encouraging, and motivating.

Nice To Haves

Professional Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Master credential preferred.

Responsibilities

Oversee product teams to ensure sprint backlogs are managed, commitments are reasonable, stories are actively swarmed, sprint goals are delivered, and quality and performance expectations are met.
Ensure product teams understand business context, product vision, user stories, and sprint goals.
Develop and negotiate team working agreements, effective user stories, acceptance criteria, and a clear definition of done.
Support team self-organization and management, cross-functional collaboration, team dynamics, and interpersonal skills.
Protect product teams from interruptions, manage risks, and remove impediments.
Assess teams and programs and recommend continuous improvements.
Help teams reflect and improve their effectiveness, predictability, teamwork, and practices.
Develop, lead, or facilitate workshops on topics such as story mapping and breakdown, user and persona creation, value-stream mapping, product road-mapping, project inception, and launch.
Educate people across levels and roles on agile principles, practices, and tools to improve workflows and product delivery.
Manage agile ceremonies and activities, including daily stand-ups, product and sprint backlog refinement, sprint reviews, agile board management, and retrospectives.
Partner with product managers and product owners on release plans and well-refined, prioritized, transparent product backlogs.
Assist with dependency management, cross-team test and delivery coordination, and release management and support.
Perform other duties as assigned.