Scrum Master Ii

About Us:
In June of 2015, EagleView was acquired by Vista Equity Partners, a leading private equity firm focused on investing in software, data, and technology-enabled organizations with over $52 billion in cumulative capital commitments. During 2018, the company received a strategic equity investment from Clearlake Capital Group and Vista Equity Partners to further support EagleView’s rapid growth and penetration of new market opportunities. The business is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Mixing technology, data, and first-in-class innovation, EagleView® is not only leading the property data analytics market, but also changing lives along the way. Come join us and make great things happen

At EagleView, we believe that making our culture engaging and empowering are keys to success. Our social, athletic, and wellness opportunities are plentiful; and the growth, education, and potential of employees is a top priority, making EagleView a “Best Place to Work” for more than five years running.

Overview:
**Responsibilities**:

- Guide the Scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted SAFe Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities
- Leverage your expertise to positively shift to lean agile mindsets, empower team members, and build a great team
- Facilitate team organization and agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning, daily standups, reviews/demos, and retrospectives
- Prepare for and facilitate release planning with teams
- Facilitate continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams
- Grow a collaborative and continuously improving engineering culture
- Understand and analyze performance measurements to facilitate team improvements
- Maintain velocity, burn down/up reporting and communicate team progress
- Ensure team is working efficiently towards clear, aligned sprint goals
- Support Agile Release Train incremental planning and facilitation activities across multiple teams and program areas
- Remove impediments and make issues and problems visible; escalate as necessary
- Assist with dependency management and cross team coordination
- Build and maintain a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, judgment, or retribution
- Serve as the primary communicator of dependencies, timelines, and constraints for your team
- Work with Technical Product Owners (TPMs) and team members to develop and maintain prioritized, groomed backlog
- Support and empower the team to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
- Foster team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization
- Lead additional projects and process improvements
- Grow team confidence to experiment, iterate, evolve, and learn
- Act as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions
- Teach new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process
- Help the team to create high-value products with built-in quality
- Work collaboratively with shared services, operations, and other stakeholder teams
- Perform other duties as required and assigned by manager and upper managements

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of experience serving in the role of Scrum Master for a software development team using Scrum/SAFe
- 3-5+ years of Scrum Master experience in Agile development including coaching on agile methodologies
- Solid written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal, and collaborative skills
- Ability to adapt to a changing environment
- History of successfully leading/supporting the delivery of products from concept to code delivery 3
- Must be self-motivated and know when to seek guidance
- Knowledge of Agile Lifecycle Management tools, particularly JIRA & Confluence
- Exceptional organization and time management skills
- Solid stakeholder management, conflict resolution, negotiation, and communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively to both technical & non-technical audiences
- Ability to work as part of a geographically dispersed team
- Demonstrated experience with software estimation and planning techniques
- Knowledge of agile methodology and scaled framework like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe etc.
- Not afraid to raise issues and inspire change while being comfortable dealing with situations of conflict, ambiguity, and uncertainty
- Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe
- Detail oriented

Bonus points if you have:

- Agile Scrum Certification (i.e. SAFe SSM, CSM, PMP-ACP, etc.)
- Understanding of continuous build and integration environments