Scrum Master at Momentum

Job Outputs

• Managing communication between agile teams and product owners of internal and external business units to develop software that supports business needs
• Developing and documenting software requirements in collaboration with the product owners
• Leading development delivery within timelines
• Establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships with all developers and sponsors, while managing time and costs

Responsibilities

• Exhibits Lean-Agile leadership
• Facilitates the team’s progress toward team goals
• Monitor and improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
• Help the team focus on daily and sprint goals in the context of Program Increment (PI) Objectives.
• Teaches problem-solving techniques and helps the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.
• Facilitates meetings – all team meetings, including Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospective.
• Supports the Product Owner – helps the Product Owner in their efforts to creating and managing the backlog
• Eliminates impediments
• Help foster a culture of technical discipline and craftsmanship that is the hallmark of effective Agile teams.
• Builds a high-performing team – Focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance.
• Helps the team manage team conflict
• Helps coordinate inter-team dependencies through coordination with other teams – The Scrum Master is typically the representative in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meeting.
• Helps the team understand how to estimate Stories, Features and Capabilities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Understanding of software development project management, particularly for application development
• Computer literate, including competency with Jira
• Experienced working with different frameworks within Agile, particularly Scrum and Kanban
• Solid understanding of Lean and Lean principles and the ability to propagate this into the teams and the organization
• Familiarity with common online and e-commerce concepts, tools and technologies
• Basic understanding of software engineering best practices, and basic architecture concepts like service orientated architecture and object orientated analysis and design
• Interest in future technologies and trends

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent people management and leadership skills
• Innovative solution finding/ problem solving skills
• Assessing and managing conflict abilities
• Highly self-motivated and resourceful
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills, including both written and verbal
• Comfortable working within a fast- paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to multi-task in time-critical situations