Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Coach teams on Agile and Scrum practices to improve software delivery
• Remove obstacles that are impeding the team’s progress
• Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity
• Schedule and facilitate Scrum ceremonies
• Help the development team reach consensus on what can be achieved during a specific time period
• Protect the development team from outside distractions
• Work with product owners and product managers to make sure the team is working on the right priorities
• Keep up to date with the latest in agile/scrum practices, including scaling, and bring that information to the team to be implemented
• Reporting out team metrics to leadership and stakeholders

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Must be Scrum certified
• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least (2) years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques in the Scrum approach (example: numerous burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
• Strong communication skills
• Strong coaching abilities
• Strong conflict resolution skills

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least (5) years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Awareness and experience with a wide variety of Agile practices: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, etc.
• Understanding/experience of the Power industry
• Knowledge of Scaled Agile frameworks
• Experience working with multiple teams simultaneously
• Driven by a clear focus on the Manifesto and the Principles
• Experience recognizing and dealing with antipatterns
• Comfortable with challenging the status quo to deliver business value outcomes over just managing output
• Familiarity with Microservices and modern software architectures
• Understands what it means to have an empowered team and has experience coaching towards that
• Expert at creating backlogs including writing, prioritizing, estimating, and sizing user-centered stories
• Story mapping experience

Experience with Release Planning