axialHealthcare is seeking an experienced Senior Scrum Master to champion, enable, and support agile principles and processes in the delivery of axial's solutions. The candidate should have a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, agile principles and practices, devops principles, and have a hands-on background of working as a scrum master within all aspects of the software development lifecycle. You will need to have excellent communication skills, be a self-starter, take ownership to enable all areas of the SDLC, and work as part of a highly collaborative team. This position is full-time and provides a competitive salary and benefits.

Responsibilities

• Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
• Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution
• Support the team using a servant leadership style and leads by example
• Remove blockers or impediments that hinder project progress
• Facilitates sprint planning and other scrum meetings
• Monitor sprint progress, help the team estimate and increase velocity
• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and successfully coach the team to higher levels of maturity
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem-solving
• Motivate the team and facilitate getting work done. Lend support to whatever part of the project needs assistance at a certain time
• Promote internal and external communication. Monitor and helps improve team dynamics. Act as the glue that holds the team together
• Coach, support and educate the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Adhere to Axial information security and privacy requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 6+ years' experience. Experience in Scrum Master role for 2+ years for a software development team that diligently applied Scrum principles, practices, theory
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Expertise with software development project management software such as Jira
• Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict
• Knowledgeable in techniques to fill in gaps in the scrum
• Experience with successful Agile techniques
• Ability to work with and lead a team
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment
• Self-motivation and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team