Senior Scrum Master

CliftonLarsonAllen•Atlanta, GA

23d

About The Position

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you. CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other. CLA is looking for a Senior Scrum Maste r to join our Enterprise IT Team How you’ll create opportunities in this Senior Scrum Master Role: Build and evolving CLA’s Agile mindset and maturity across the IT organization. They drive the Agile transformation by guiding and coaching Product Owners, less experienced Scrum Masters, Developers, the Scrum Team and other relevant Stakeholders. They serve as Scrum Master on multiple Scrum teams simultaneously, facilitating all aspects of the Scrum framework’s ceremonies and serving as a buffer between Developers, Product Owners, and Stakeholders outside the Scrum team. They may act as Kanban Team Lead Assist with guiding the team and Organization on our Agile transformation to help mature and enhance existing processes Coach teams and leaders in Agile principles and practices, roles and responsibilities and frameworks Monitor Agile maturity of teams, while identifying areas of opportunities working with Scrum Masters and Delivery teams Implement and adopt continuous improvement practices Facilitate discussions, decision making and conflict resolution Collaborate with Leadership, Product Owners and Architects to ensure alignment on strategy and execution Work with other Scrum Masters to synchronize common practices when possible and reconcile tailoring when not Elevate teams to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate mentoring and development techniques Support the Product Owner with respect to sprint grooming and maintaining the product backlog Ensure successful delivery of large impact and/or cross-functional product initiatives on time and within budget Remove blockers or impediments, resolve conflicts and communicate team status including burndown and velocity Assist with administration of the Azure DevOps board Track dependencies across teams, utilizing SOS or other methods, Navigate situations that challenge the scrum team, and devise solutions or processes utilizing Agile principles.

Requirements

4 years of relevant experience required.
Bachelor's degree is required.
Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.

Nice To Haves

Experience for a software development team that was applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory preferred.
Experience as Project Manager, managing budget and forecasting preferred.
Experience as a Scrum Master preferred.
Hold one or more scrum certifications preferred; certified scrum master, agile certified practitioner, professional scrum master

Responsibilities

Build and evolving CLA’s Agile mindset and maturity across the IT organization.
They drive the Agile transformation by guiding and coaching Product Owners, less experienced Scrum Masters, Developers, the Scrum Team and other relevant Stakeholders.
They serve as Scrum Master on multiple Scrum teams simultaneously, facilitating all aspects of the Scrum framework’s ceremonies and serving as a buffer between Developers, Product Owners, and Stakeholders outside the Scrum team.
They may act as Kanban Team Lead
Assist with guiding the team and Organization on our Agile transformation to help mature and enhance existing processes
Coach teams and leaders in Agile principles and practices, roles and responsibilities and frameworks
Monitor Agile maturity of teams, while identifying areas of opportunities working with Scrum Masters and Delivery teams
Implement and adopt continuous improvement practices
Facilitate discussions, decision making and conflict resolution
Collaborate with Leadership, Product Owners and Architects to ensure alignment on strategy and execution
Work with other Scrum Masters to synchronize common practices when possible and reconcile tailoring when not
Elevate teams to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate mentoring and development techniques
Support the Product Owner with respect to sprint grooming and maintaining the product backlog
Ensure successful delivery of large impact and/or cross-functional product initiatives on time and within budget
Remove blockers or impediments, resolve conflicts and communicate team status including burndown and velocity
Assist with administration of the Azure DevOps board
Track dependencies across teams, utilizing SOS or other methods
Navigate situations that challenge the scrum team, and devise solutions or processes utilizing Agile principles.