Scrum Masters - Bellevue, United States - Highbrow LLC

Description

1.
This job opportunity is for employment type W2 .

2. Candidates who are willing to apply must hold US work authorization.
looking for experience Scrum Masters to join our Security Team. As a Scrum Master,

you will provide coaching for Agile teams on best practices and help them reach high levels of

performance and flow. You are an evangelist for improving the development process. You will also help

facilitate group activities and help remove barriers to team progress.


Your responsibility:

• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review, and

sprint retrospective.

• Help remove organizational, resource, or technical impediments affecting the Scrum team.
• Track key performance indicators with respect to quality, earned business value, and velocity.
• Report sprint and release progress to project management, leadership, and other stakeholders

including burn-down or burn-up charts.

• Work with the product owner and Scrum team to ensure the product backlog is regularly

prioritized, refined, and sized using good acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate sprint planning, daily scrums/stand-ups, retrospectives and reviews, in addition to

actual sprint workstreams.

• Facilitate communication and effective collaboration – between your team and the world, across

the organization.

• Serve as your team's point of contact for external communications.
• Partner closely with your product owners to manage backlogs, inbound requests, on-the-fly

changes, etc.

• Resolve conflicts and unblock blockers.
• Be a thought leader and evangelist for Agile practices within the team. Ability to coach a team

and stakeholders on Agile practices and ensure adherence to Agile methodology.

Requirements


What you'll bring:

• 5 years of experience working as a Scrum master within an enterprise IT organization.
• 5 years of experience in project delivery within an enterprise IT organization.
• Strong understanding and application of agile principles and processes.
• Coaching and mentoring team members on agile Scrum.
• Strong understanding of agile requirements definition including Epics, features, user stories,

sizing techniques, acceptance criteria, functional and non-functional requirements, story

readiness, and definition-of-done.

• Strong experience facilitating sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Experience acting as a Scrum master for more than one Scrum team at a time, including on-shore and off-shore (or remote) team members.
• Excellent communications, interpersonal and customer support skills.

Experience with Agile techniques:
User Stories, TDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous

Testing, Continuous Delivery , Automated Testing

• Expertise with JIRA, Confluence, and the Atlassian suite
• Experience using JIRA's Agile performance metrics to drive accountability and continuous

improvement

• Should have a Lean-Agile mindset and well versed with SAFe principles and practices

TMO – Internal


Good to have:

• Experience managing a geo-dispersed project team
• Cloud experience/exposure
• Security domain knowledge
• Agile certification such as CSP, CSPO, PMIACP, SPC or similar with accompanying experience

managing projects to a successful conclusion

• Desired certified skills Technology product development experience is highly desired

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