Sr Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the development teams are practicing Agile principles.
• Promote continuous improvement and a collaborative team environment in order to increase productivity.
• Manage the backlog and ensure it is properly prioritized and sized as appropriate.
• Financial management of initiatives within the team’s scope.
• Capacity management within the team and in partnership with demand from other teams.
• Manage multiple projects of small to large scale through sprints/iterations and assist the BSA/Product Owner in breaking down the project into stories.
• Organize and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, demos) and any other meetings required to unblock obstacles and drive stories completion.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint progress/burn down chart to management and any impacted entities.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Determine and remove all obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the teams' to deliver assigned goals.

Key Skills:

• Learning to build Scrum knowledge.
• Execution of Scrum. 
• Leadership. 
• Collaboration. 
• Organization. 
• Project management tools expertise. 
• Agile and software development knowledge. 
• Listening.