Scrum Master at MADE Code

Job description

Under the direction of the CTO, the Software Product Owner is responsible for leading the development of advanced software projects. The ideal candidate demonstrates their passion for product development by coupling of excellent communication and organizational skills with ability to quickly identify the best development path, and communicate to development teams the details required to create exceptional products.

As a Scrum master you must have exceptional time management skills to facilitate all aspects of the team's planning and prioritization process. Leveraging your knowledge of the Agile platform and tools, you will have the ability to coach the team on agile and scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement in these disciplines. Through coaching and support of the individual team members you will foster an environment where individuals recognize and value the importance of team success.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Observation of team dynamics, to recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coach them to improve.
• Helps team members improve individual performance in support of team goals.
• Effectively cooperates with Product Owner and Technical Director to create an environment in which the team can increase productivity, quality, and predictability.
• Responsible for operational excellence by facilitating backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily scrum, and sprint reviews.
• Monitors and supports a scrum team through continuous improvement of agile execution.
• Helps the team recognize modest but steady operational improvement through the introduction of best practices to solve observed challenges.
• Facilitates the Definition of Ready and Definition of Done criteria for all stories.
• Able to limit ego and the "desire to control" using Servant leadership practices, so that the team can self-form and self-direct its own sprint execution.
• Impediment Resolution by advocating for the team and personally trying to remove impediments or by seeking help from outside the team.
• Inter-team Coordination and Collaboration by helping identify and track user story dependencies between scrum teams.
• Learns from and shares best practices with Scrum Masters on other teams.
• Eliminates roadblocks and creates focus on accomplishing a goal
• Ensure that sprint results and team performance is communicated accurately.
• Mentality that picking up the phone and calling someone is alot more effective than sitting and waiting for an email to be answered.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Broad IT domain experience in the following areas: Project Management, Software Development, SCRUM, Quality Assurance
• University degree in non-specific fields
• Advanced degrees are preferred
• Demonstrated ability to communicate in both verbal and written communication
• Demonstrated analytical skills and thinking
• Basic understanding of software and business concepts
• Familiarity with general business functions
• Problem solving and strong communication skills