Scrum Master Lead - Development Team - Consulting Firm

Scrum Master Lead- Development

The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team helping everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values. The Scrum Master helps those outside the Scrum Team understand their interactions with the Scrum Team.

- Supporting the Product Owner and Development Team to deliver value

- Guiding and Coaching the Scrum Team and the organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values

- Guiding and Coaching the Scrum Team on how to get the most out of self-organization

- Helping to refine and groom the Product Backlog with the Product Owner

- Assessing the agile maturity of the team and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

- Removing impediments (people, process or tools) that hinders agility within the team

- Building a safe environment to stimulate innovation

- Assisting with internal and external communication, and improving transparency leveraging visual dashboarding to keep information up to date

- Manage stakeholders outside the team as required Skills & Requirements:

- Scrum Master certifications (PSM I, CSM, PSM II, PSM III, CSP, CTC)

- Total overall experience of 12+years. In this overall experience, should be playing the Scrum Master role for at least 4 years for a Scrum Team

- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

- Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)

- Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, Nexus, LeSS, SAFe, DevOps etc.

- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games

- Software development background is an advantage

Responsibility:

- Scrum Master, scrum team building, cadence and scrum workshop facilitation.

- Assist the Artificial Intelligence team and work across different stakeholders.

- Interface with IT and TDT to ensure IT compliance.

Skills:

- Experience in leading delivery with Agile / DevOps methodology. - Experience as scrum master and agile coaching

- Experience working in Machine Vision space is a plus - Awareness of agile @ scale SAFE framework

- Good understanding of Agile Practice, Agile delivery and Project Delivery Framework is a plus

- Ability to deal with ambiguity - Deliver at speed in the innovation space