Sr Lead Scrum Master

Job Description Summary

Manages day-to-day aspects of a scrum team, which includes leading Scrum Events (Backlog, Planning, Review, Retrospectives, and Daily Stand Ups) and be an advocate for autonomous, self-organizing, empowered, and continuously improving teams. You will act as primary point of contact, information hub, and escalation point within an assigned function for all stakeholders including all functional departments, Clients, and Third Party Suppliers.

Essential Job Functions

  • Be the guardian of a medium to large, fairly complex scrum team
  • Raises impediments and remove roadblocks/distractions, resolving challenges quickly and positively
  • Facilitates medium to large team organization and ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews/demos, and retrospectives
  • Aligns your teams around clear goals and encourage direct, positive involvement in all aspects
  • Grows team confidence to experiment, iterate, evolve, and learn
  • Ensures full transparency with velocity, burn down/up reporting, and communicating team progress with value focused metrics
  • Collaborates with Product Owner in backlog grooming
  • Leverages your expertise to change mindsets, empower team members, and build a great team

Other Job Duties

  • Consistently improve the process / product and take and receive direct feedback on what’s working and what’s not
  • Leads and influences others, including those more senior on best practices
  • Anticipates and responds to changes in direction, priority, and sprint performance
  • Supports and empowers the team to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition

Required Experience

  • Requires mastery level knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined within experience
  • May have deep knowledge of Agile methodologies
  • Requires 10 years minimum prior relevant experience

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree

Skills

  • Possess conflict resolution skills, with a focus on open, honest communication, and respect
  • Intermediate to advanced knowledge of agile methodology and scaled framework like scrum, Kanban, SAFe etc.
  • Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Jira / Confluence / CA PPM (Clarity) / CA Rally or similar tools
  • Intermediate to advanced skills in Stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication
  • Intermediate to advanced planning skills with strong estimation experience in a scrum format
  • Intermediate to advanced ability to bring out the best in others and lead by example
  • Intermediate to advanced interpersonal skills with ability to work collaboratively with diverse personality types
  • Intermediate to advanced analytical, planning and organizational skills, and a talent for managing competing demands
  • Intermediate to advanced understanding of continuous build and integration environments

About us:

AgileTrinity is the world’s preeminent force in enterprise processes, productivity methods and scaling. We keep that distinction by maintaining our objective of value focused, continuous improvement, best practices and agility and remaining true to our vision statement: The World’s Maximizing Engine of value practices—Powered by Experimented coaches, Fueled by Innovation. Through shared values, key capabilities and upholding our coache’s Creed, we continue to achieve our mission and aim high in all we do.

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