Essential job functions
* coordinates activities of team members (e.g., staff from software development, quality assurance, user experience, test, etc.) to ensure agile values, principles, methodologies and processes are followed during an agile-based software development lifecycle (sdlc).
* confers with team members to provide advice and to resolve problems.
* guides and coaches team members to become self-organized, self-assess, and achieve higher levels of performance.
* facilitates and supports team events (e.g., project planning meetings, retrospectives, demonstrations, software releases, process reviews, etc.).
* develops and tracks metrics. Prepares reports to help team understand its progress during a sprint, work process or project, and identifies trends for team members and management.
* provides training and guidance and assigns tasks to less experienced staff members.
* develops and maintains agile documentation and training materials and conducts training.
required skills and qualifications
* bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar.
* certified scrum master (csm) and certified product owner (cspo), or similar.
* 7 years of experience as a scrum master or as a project manager for lean-agile delivery team using a variety of methodologies (e.g., waterfall, agile, hybrid).
* proven track record of delivering successful projects in a matrixed agile and traditional project management environment.
* general knowledge of work management and microsoft teams collaboration software.
* excellent verbal and written communications skills; comfortable working directly with and providing status information to executive leadership and project stakeholders.
* excellent leadership, prioritization, organizational skills, team building, resource planning, and resource management skills
* ability to represent the company in a professional and positive manner and promote company values.