Scrum Master

Job Title: Scrum Master

Employment Type: Contract to Hire
Location: Houston, TX

Position: (Must be willing to work 4 days a week onsite in downtown, Houston)

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The Scrum Master should have and meet the following requirements:

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Manage and facilitate the scrum teams daily work, including executing Sprint ceremonies (e.g., Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Review, and Retrospective)
• Collaborate with Product and Platform Owners to understand the vision, mission, and OKRs to facilitate work effectively and efficiently
• Identify and remove obstacles or impediments faced by the team to ensure smooth workflow and efficiency

• Ensure team follows the Scrum practices and seeks to improve how were working
• Preventing people outside the team from assigning team members work, changing their priorities, or impairing the teams ability to make and meet commitments
• Build team cohesion and collaboration, instilling a team identity and culture
• Manage team dependencies, risks, and opportunities
• Attend relevant syncs, planning sessions, and all demos
• Coach and mentor team members in adopting Agile practices and fostering a truly Agile mindset, including ownership, self-management, and empowerment
• Guide the team in process improvement, support the Product Owner in facilitating progress towards goals, and help team members achieve optimum productivity by identifying strengths and weaknesses
• Exhibit Lean Agile leadership, promote best practices, and lead the teams efforts in relentless improvement
• Understand the universal application of best practices and processes needed to scale agile mindset and methodologies for organizational success
• Identify areas of improvement and helps drive innovation and continuous improvements
• Monitor the quality of the product backlog and support work prioritization
• Track teams progress daily in the Sprints
• Support, facilitate, and participate in Quarterly Planning events for the platform and product teams to drive value, prioritize work, and identify dependencies across product teams
• Collaborate across product teams to address and manage dependencies per Sprint
• Track, monitor and report on product team metrics (e.g., Velocity, etc.)

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, Business Administration, or a related area of study from an accredited college or university.
• Scrum Master Certification.
• SAFe certification, is a plus.

EXPERIENCE/SKILLS

• A minimum of 3 years of experience on an Agile Team that was actively applying principles, practices, and theory of Scrum, Kanban and SAFe.
• Familiarity with Agile Tools such as Azure DevOps
• Knowledge and experience with MS Office Tools
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycles (SDLC)
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and facilitation skills
• Must demonstrate commitment to compliance with applicable laws and regulations, the Companys Ethics and Compliance Code of Conduct, and other Company policies and procedures, and take all required training courses
• Must demonstrate respect for all individuals and adhere to the Companys values and business practices