Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives).
Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values.
Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the blocker.
Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
Support and educate the Product Owner, especially on refinement and maintaining the product backlog.
Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
Partner with business stakeholders to understand, confirm and document business processes /requirements in user stories with acceptance criteria
Partner with technical leads to decompose epic/feature-level backlog items into user stories with acceptance criteria.

Requirements

Active Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) clearance. MBI Letter preferred.
Proven 5+ years' experience as a Scrum Master in a software development environment, specifically with legacy modernization projects involving Java, Oracle and/or APIs.
Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I) is strongly preferred.
Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is strongly preferred

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills

ScrumAgileJavaOracleAPIsBurndown techniquesRetrospective formatsLegacy modernizationUser storiesAcceptance criteria

Soft skills

servant leadershipfacilitationsituational awarenessconflict resolutioncontinual improvementempowermenttransparencycommunicationmentoringproblem-solving

Certifications

Scrum Master certification (CSM)Scrum Master certification (PSM I)