Scrum Master

**What you’ll do**
- Lead and facilitate 2-3 Scrum teams, each composed of 7-9 members including software developers, QA engineers, and a product owner.
- Champion and ensure team understanding and adherence to the Team Agreement, Definition of Ready, and Definition of Done.
- Collaborate closely with product owners to ensure a clear understanding of business objectives within features and user stories.
- Expertly facilitate core Scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, release planning, daily stand-ups, stakeholder demos, and sprint retrospectives.
- Actively support the product owner in the continuous development, maintenance, and refinement of the product backlog.
- Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and blockers to maintain high team productivity.
- Manage and coordinate dependencies with other internal teams to ensure smooth workflow.
- Provide transparent metrics and regular team health status updates.
- Diligently track, report on, and facilitate the resolution of identified issues and risks.
- Implement and support change practices within the team.
- Track key team performance indicators such as velocity, volatility, predictability, and cycle time, and use these metrics to drive continuous team improvement.
- Provide exemplary support to the team through servant leadership and by consistently leading by example.
- Utilize Jira proficiently to create insightful dashboards, filters, and reports for team visibility and tracking.

**What experience you need**
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related equivalent practical experience.
- 2-5 years of professional experience in managing technology projects involving cross-functional, matrix teams (including vendors) with significant integration across multiple lines of business and technical disciplines.
- Minimum of 3-5 1 year of experience as a Scrum Master managing Agile projects using Agile software development methodologies, specifically Scrum or Kanban.
- Demonstrated experience in actively participating in process improvement and/or change initiatives.
- Scrum Master Certification is preferred.

**What could set you apart**
- Consistently demonstrates high professional standards aligned with the organization’s values, principles, and code of conduct, actively encouraging the same in others.
- Takes full ownership and accountability for personal tasks, decisions, and outcomes, readily acknowledging errors and addressing problems directly without shifting blame.
- Possesses solid foundational knowledge and experience within the discipline, while actively developing more advanced skills and understanding.
- Effectively identifies and resolves a range of problems in straightforward situations using established methods.
- Makes sound decisions within established guidelines and policies that directly impact personal work.
- Prioritizes and organizes workload efficiently to meet deadlines and consistently deliver high-quality results.
- Change Management: Leverages knowledge of change management principles to foster the adoption of Agile mindsets and processes within the team.
- Negotiation and Influence: Skillfully engages in team-level discussions to achieve consensus and drive outcomes, effectively influencing the actions, behaviors, or opinions of others.
- Operational Excellence: Proactively monitors and measures systems against key metrics to ensure consistent and high-quality product delivery.
- Process Improvement: Identifies and champions new ways of working within the Scrum framework to streamline processes and enhance efficiency.
- Product Development Lifecycle: Applies a working knowledge of the product development lifecycle to contribute effectively to bringing products to market.
- Google Cloud Certification