Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Title: Senior Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Location: San Fracisco Bay Area (Hybrid)

Type: 12+ months contract

Qualifications:

Bachelors in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field

10 years of IT work experience and scrum execution in an IT or software development setting

Knowledge of multiple agile development methodologies and frameworks

Understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development

Leading teams

PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe, or equivalent certification preferred

Experience using agile tools, including Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence

Scrum, Scaled Agile, experience

Responsibilities:

As a Scrum Master / Sr. Scrum Master, you will be a key member of the Agile team, serving as a coach, mentor and facilitator of Agile practices. The Scrum Master/Sr. Scrum Master facilitates the scrum processes, protects the team from interference and helps remove impediments so that the team can deliver sprint goals and PI objectives. They foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous process flow, and relentless improvement.

Plans, leads, organizes, and coaches one or more cross-functional teams on how to implement and improve Agile practices

Leads the coordination and facilitation of sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review and retrospectives

Acts as a primary communication hub between program and product management teams and the application development team to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time

Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution by encouraging transparency and building trust among team members

Works with Product Owners and Managers to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution

Partners with program and release managers in production deployment activities

Leads the development, analysis, tracking, and communication of team's agile adoption and progress metrics, including velocity, burn-down, cycle time, and other quality metrics.

Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team

Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner, and other scrum teams.

Manages and resolves dependencies across scrum teams.

Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution

Drives cross-functional projects of medium to complex projects

Coaches the agile team on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition

Coaching the team on how to implement and improve its Agile practices

Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities

Works with other Scrum Masters in coordinating scrum-of-scrum activities across teams.