Senior Scrum Master
SBUXJP
8 Month Contract
REMOTE/ Seattle, WA
REQUIREMENTS:
5+ Years SCRUM Master/Agile project experience
5+ Years Traditional project management experience
Scrum Master Certification
Proficiency in Jira
Proficiency in Confluence
Proficiency in Microsoft project
Proficiency in MS Office
Experience in Kanban teams
Experience being an actual coach, understand team dynamics, recognize where the team is lacking, etc.
Demonstrates familiarity with software development lifecycles and the ability to facilitate decision making that balances business needs and technical priorities
Understands integration tools and methods
Demonstrates knowledge of system testing and test plan development
Working knowledge of software engineering, retail technologies, SharePoint, Web, Mobile, API, and Service-Oriented Architectures.
Skilled at reporting on sprint status, burn down charts, summarizing results, and taking corrective action.
Ability to navigate within a fast-paced dynamic environment with high degrees of ambiguity to deliver large and complex projects
Ability to maneuver through tough political situations
Ability to lead geographically distributed development teams
Establishes collaborative relationships with business and technology partners at various levels in the organization
Superior communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate to diverse audiences and all levels of the organization, able to bridge communication gaps between technology and business users, and able to foster open team communication.
Strong leadership skills, with the ability to build cross-functional project teams and protect valuable team resources
Ability to identify and voice concerns and project issues in a timely and effective manner
Ability to flex leadership style to accommodate a wide variety of team member styles and leverage team diversity
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong negotiation skills
Knowledge of basic business principles and company goals and objectives
Team: 5 Senior Scrum Master Agile coaches, supporting 15 teams across the business teams
This team is a true Agile team
Typical Day/Responsibilities:
Apply scrum/agile iterative development processes to lead on-time delivery of product backlog user stories.
Leverage risk and issue management, leadership courage and proactive / timely communications to safeguard project resources and direct corrective measures to ensure project success
Bridge communication between technology and the business through targeted communications and fostering open dialog with team members
Provide team members with clear communication and direction - including appropriate governance and decision making.
Identify resource gaps and inform the program and project manager to support and enable resource managers for outsourced services as needed.
Direct completion of applicable lifecycle deliverables in compliance with established company standards, practices and policies.
Negotiate across multiple functions to resolve impediments and competing priorities.
Work independently, without the need for day-to-day guidance from agile practice leaders or senior program management leadership.
In partnership with scrum teams and product owner: identify, document, and size user stories and acceptance criteria
Drive definition of the minimal viable product
Partner with the product owner to prioritize the backlog
Define the scrum approach, based on best practices and learnings from previous projects, and secure scrum team and management team working agreements
Plan the release/sprint roadmap
Plan Sprint
During the Design, Build, Test, and Deploy phases of the project, lead the scrum team:
Execute Sprint and downstream sprints
Partner with the product owner to continuously groom the backlog
Lead user story and sprint acceptance sessions
Partner with the product owner to run product demos to interested stakeholders
Lead daily scrums
Lead sprint retrospectives
Lead sprint-planning and task-definition sessions
Partner with the product owner in release to production activities.
Ensures that scrum artifacts remain relevant and up-to-date.
Ensures that risks and impediments are visible inside and outside the team; helps remove impediments that prevent the team from making progress and meeting its commitments.
Understands and helps drive resolution of technical issues.
Schedule and facilitate scrum events as needed or requested.
Build team disciplines necessary for estimating, forecasting and committing to work and for communicating about plans and estimates.
Help the team and the product owner build the right product.