Scrum Master
The Hartford
Senior Scrum Master
The Hartford
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Danbury • Connecticut • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $108,800 - $163,200 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Facilitate all the Agile/SCRUM ceremonies - DSU's, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews, Retrospective/Sprint demos
- Partners with the Product Owner, IT Delivery Lead and Business leadership to form execution delivery plans and manage progress and facilitates release planning
- Organizes and facilitates ceremonies, identifies improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and quality while mitigating risk
- Reports to Release Train Engineer and works closely with the RTE for overall delivery of Agile release train PI objectives
- Partners with the Product Owner to ensure the backlog items are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team
- Tracks and communicates the overall team progress providing visibility to stakeholders
- Serves as a filter to remove impediments to progress as identified by the team
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
- Motivate the team to be disciplined and accountable for ensuring the Agile tools(Rally/JIRA) hygiene is maintained
Requirements
- 3+ years’ experience working and managing Agile team structures (Scrum/Kanban)
- Experience with SAFe is a plus
- Strong knowledge and experience working with Agile reports/Metrics
- Experience working with PO in backlog grooming/refinements
- Experience in participating in Program increment (PI Planning)
- Experience in Estimation and Story pointing
- Experience in Team Planning- Capacity/velocity
- Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict
- Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills and ability to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams
- Ability to adapt to a changing environment
- Self-motivation and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction
- Scrum Master certification preferred
Benefits
- Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses
- Long-term incentives
- On-the-spot recognition
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
AgileSCRUMSAFeKanbanAgile reportsMetricsBacklog groomingEstimationStory pointingTeam Planning
Soft skills
communicationinterpersonal skillsmentoringconflict resolutionadaptabilityself-motivationproblem solvingteam accountabilitytrust buildingcoaching
Certifications
Scrum Master certification
