Senior Scrum Master

Location Rosemont, IL

Candidates must be local (onsite required 1-2 days a week)

Duration 12+ month contract

Candidates must have experience working with Azure DevOps and Scrum Certification.

Our client is looking to add a Sr. Scrum Master to their team that is a servant leader and coach for an agile team, who is responsible for optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered by one or more pod / scrum team.

Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating Scrum ceremonies, managing dependencies for the team, providing visibility into team delivery plans and progress, enabling continuous improvement within the team.

The Scrum Master helps educate the team, ensuring that the agreed Agile process is being followed. They also help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

Responsibilities :

• Ensure impediments are resolved quickly, the team follows their agreed-to team working agreements, and that there is a good relationship between the Product Owner(s) and the development team(s).
• Establish and ensure adherence to the Scrum framework and ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• Help the team define team working agreements, like a Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, and enforces the agreements.
• Set up standard project metrics, product templates and processes and works with the team(s) to create the proper ceremonies and deliverables.
• Continuously strives towards more efficient and effective Scrum teams, resulting in higher and consistent velocities as well as better software quality.
• Clearly communicate with all stakeholders, including Product Owner and Team, manage risks and resolve impediments.
• Apply expert level knowledge of the software development life cycle to coach teams to flawless deployments to the production environment.
• Drive Scrum of Scrums to ensure dependencies are clearly understood and cross-team impediments are addressed.
• Understand the big picture as well as the details and complexities of technical and functional issues, driving them to resolution.
• Ensures the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog (in collaboration with the PO).

Qualifications :

• 8 years of experience as Scrum Master and familiar with the adoption of Agile values, principles, framework, and practices.
• BA / BS in IT, statistics, computer science, mathematics, information management, business or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Microsoft Azure DevOps expertise.
• CSM, A-CSM, SAFe SM or CSP designation.
• Strong investigative, analytical skills.
• Interpersonal communication skills with the ability to work independently or as part of a team with both the Business and technology staff.
• Experience leading or participating in all Agile meetings including : sprint planning, sprint grooming, review, demo, stand-up, and retrospective sessions.
• Experience in all phases of product, software, and testing lifecycles.
• Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills.
• Curious, self-motivated, independent.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Extensive knowledge of several agile frameworks including SAFe and experience working in a SAFe environment
30+ days ago