Senior Specialist, Scrum Master

BetaNXT Inc • New York, NY

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About The Position

As a member of the Program Management Office (PMO) team, you will actively contribute to planning, delivery, and reporting for our application development teams. You will be a Scrum Master for one or two application delivery teams and work with our product and technical leads to ensure the teams are operating in an effective and efficient manner. Using a servant leader mindset and expert knowledge of agile practices and the scrum framework, you’ll help enable the delivery of high-quality customer-facing applications.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of experience leading sprints as a Scrum Master
• BA/BS degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• High level of proficiency in JIRA and Confluence
• Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
• Effective leader with a natural ability to influence and motivate teams.
• Proven understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
• Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
• Comfortable presenting project readouts and updates to a variety of stakeholder audiences.
• Deep understanding of agile metrics (burndown metrics, velocity, KPI’s, etc.) to analyze and improve
• Demonstrates the ability to understand and effectively represent both business and technology perspectives.
• Excellent communication skills in person, over the phone, and through email.

Nice To Haves

• Scrum Master or Scrum Coaching certifications preferred

Responsibilities

• Facilitate daily stand-up, release and iteration planning, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Guide team in story pointing and work effort estimates.
• Support product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.
• Partner with project management to develop and track project risks and delivery output and timelines.
• Drive team iteration execution and communicate with management and stakeholders.
• Lead multi-team sprint review preparation and presentation.
• Conduct post-mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity.
• Lead team effort in relentless improvement.
• Proactively identify and eliminate impediments.
• Present high level project readouts for program leadership and senior management.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level