Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

You will:

• Act as an Agile Coach and advocate of agile values and culture in the project teams and in the organization
• Organize and lead Scrum ceremonies and meetings to monitor project progress
• Facilitate daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and the iteration retrospective 
• Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases 
• Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines 
• Guide the team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates 
• Drive team iteration execution, communicate with management and stakeholders, and protect the team from the uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional) 
• Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance 
• Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks 
• Create post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity 
• Lead the team towards relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program 
• Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution 
• Present high-level project readouts for senior management 
• Support product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
• Conduct project performance reviews of team members
• Other duties as needed 

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Computing / Business or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 yrs experience in Information Technology (IT) Industry as a Software Developer, Quality Analyst, Business Analyst, or PMO
• Preferred to have at least 1 year of Project Manager experience
• Preferred to have Project Management training
• Minimum of 3 yrs experience as a Scrum Master or similar role
• Demonstrable expertise in agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc. 
• Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment 
• Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum 
• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules, and practices 
• Strong understanding of Project Management SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs 
• Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics 
• Passionate commitment to delivering products on time 
• Comfortable with presenting project readouts to the Executive level audience 
• Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories, etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning 
• Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology 
• Excellent communicator in person, over virtual mediums, and through email 
• Proven experience in leadership and people management 
• SAFe Scrum Master certification (SSM) preferred
• Professional Scrum Master certification (PSM) preferred

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, Regular Day shift

Work Setup: Hybrid