Scrum Master
Scrum Master
Minneapolis, MN (FWR)
Corporate Information Technology
Job Description
Req ID: req24062
Scrum Master Summary:
Act as an effective change agent, promoting agile best practices to teams focusing on alignment with business, relentless improvement and delivering value. This individual will support enterprise agile adoption and maturity across the enterprise by observing, evaluating, and implementing changes to solve organizational and cultural impediments to improve the agile transformation of a program or project.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Coach agile best practices to scrum team. Continuously ensure agile best practices are being followed.
- Be a servant leader to the scrum team.
- Addressing any concerns
- Clearing any blockers
- Facilitate agile meetings/ceremonies for teams. Ensuring purposes are met, effectively and efficiently.
- Ensure team is always aligned with product/sprint goals
- Act as Subject Matter Expert for Azure Boards, ensuring team and stakeholders are getting proper value from the tool
- Support enterprise agile adoption and maturity across the enterprise by observing, evaluating, and implementing changes to solve organizational and cultural impediments to improve the agile transformation of a program or project.
- Collaborate with leadership to re-enforce and teach agile best practice.
- Be relentless. Always driving team to improve culture, processes and delivery.
- Communicate changes, intended goals, timelines and results
- Radiate information from scrum team to product stakeholders (Product Owner, Project Managers, and Leadership)
- Escalating product risks, issues and blockers
- Communicate team velocity
- Create and communicate metrics
- Support Product Owners. Ensuring team clearly understands:
- Product Vision
- Product Roadmap
- Release Plan
- Sprint Objectives
- Other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
- Degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred.
- One or more agile certifications preferred (e.g. CSM, CSPO, CSP, PSM, PSPO, SAFe).
TECHNICAL/SOFT SKILLS:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Knowledgeable about Agile principles and application.
- Capable of bridging the waterfall and agile frameworks as the transition to agile matures in the organization.
- Strong coaching and facilitation skills; adept at problem solving with team to analyze issues and opportunities to improve in working model and align on path forward for action.
- Energetic and skilled at engaging with different team members with different personalities.
- Ability to learn quickly and teach others by showing what worked and what didn't.
EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum of 5 years of iterative or agile-like development experience.
- Demonstrated training and change management experience.
- Experience interacting with senior level management.
- Experience interacting with the client.
- Demonstrated experience with meeting facilitation and negotiation.
- Demonstrated experience teaching technical teams basic agile framework concepts.
You want your next step to be the right one. You've worked hard to get where you are today. And now you're ready to use your unique skills, talents and personality to achieve great things. RSM is a place where you are valued as an individual, mentored as a future leader, and recognized for your accomplishments and potential. Working directly with clients, key decision makers and business owners across various industries and geographies, you'll move quickly along the learning curve and our clients will benefit from your fresh perspective.
Experience RSM US. Experience the power of being understood.
RSM is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.
Location Street Address: 801 Nicollet Mall, 11th Floor - West Tower, Minneapolis, MN 55402-2526 USA
Region: National
Position Type: Experienced
Job Type: Full Time
Degree Required: None
Travel Required: No
Sponsor candidates who are not eligible to work in US: No
Requisition ID: req24062