Job Description

Job Title: Scrum Master

Division/Department:  R&D

Location: Charlotte or Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Job Description

As a Scrum Master you will lead one or more SCRUM teams contributing features and functionality.  You will be responsible for ensuring that the teams are high performing with respect to Agile/SCRUM guidelines and best practices in a scaled agile framework.  You will also be called upon to be an active contributor to driving adoption and continuous improvement of Agile/SCRUM across the organization.

Responsibilities 

• Lead day to day execution of activities of one or more scrum teams
• Collaborate and coordinate with other SCRUM masters in a multiple agile team environment
• Ensure full end to end delivery of features from inception through to solution testing and release
• Collaborate with Product Management to turn the roadmap vision into reality
• Facilitate technical discussions with Architects to resolve technical challenges the team encounters
• Facilitate daily standups with team, including stakeholders
• Facilitate sprint planning sessions and provide sprint commitment updates to Business, including comprehensive use of KPIs
• Facilitate retrospective meetings and track actions to closure
• Work with Product Owner to prioritize product backlog
• Assist development team and BAs/TPOs to refine product functionality and product backlog user stories
• Adopt a tenacious approach to delivery, ensuring agreed scope is delivered
• Radiate team communications and impediments to release and programme-level teams
• Communicate progress, raise risks or issues to Product Owners, Management and Stakeholders as necessary
• Shield team from external influences not relevant to current sprint work
• Facilitate continuous improvement both in the delivery effort and implementation of agile practices in the organisation
• Coach and mentor the other Scrum Masters in order to promote a strong Centre of Excellence with consistency in practice and results

Required Experience

• Experience working with globally distributed teams
• Must be able to work in a fast paced environment
• Experience in stakeholder management, negotiation and communication
• Ability to function as Scrum Master for multiple projects
• Ability to identify risks or issues during the sprint and help the team in resolution of issues which impede progress.
• Good exposure on sizing techniques used in agile process (Story Points)
• Ability to improve team maturity levels in understanding process and improving productivity in terms of velocity
• Ability to train or educate team on agile process
• Strong coaching skills and experience in mentoring other Scrum Masters
• Exposure in using Agile Life Cycle Management tools like JIRA and recognize the importance of such tools in driving success
• Use of KPIs as part of team management, stakeholder comms and continuous improvement
• Knowledge management tools such as Sharepoint, Confluence etc.

Preferred Experience

• 3+ years as a project manager in an application development environment
• Experience in Healthcare domain
• Working knowledge of general technologies, architecture and trends

Qualifications 

• Good communicator with excellent planning and execution skills
• BS or MS in Computer Science or other related field
• Most recent 2+ years as a Scrum Master in an application development environment
• Must be a Certified Scrum Master