Scrum Master MB6801

Nisum is a leading global digital commerce firm headquartered in California, with services spanning digital strategy and transformation, insights and analytics, blockchain, business agility, and custom software development. Founded in 2000 with the customer-centric motto “Building Success Together®,” Nisum has grown to over 1,800 professionals across the United States, Chile,Colombia, India, Pakistan and Canada. A preferred advisor to leading Fortune 500 brands, Nisum enables clients to achieve direct business growth by building the advanced technology they need to reach end customers in today’s world, with immersive and seamless experiences across digital and physical channels.

What You'll Do

• Creating and onboarding project teams, ensuring they are integrated into the organization, and making sure all parties involved fulfill their responsibilities. 
• Encouraging the use of agile engineering practices, such as Continuous Integration (CI) tools, to help software teams be more efficient. 
• Facilitating Agile ceremonies and discussions between development and customer teams, and coaching the team on Scrum processes.
• Keeping the product backlog up-to-date, which includes features, tasks, and other items needed to bring the product to market. 
• Facilitating communication and information exchange between external groups and the project team. 
• Monitoring project progress and providing timely feedback. 
• Driving a culture of agility and learning. 
• Getting buy-in from stakeholders, conveying the business benefits of Scrum, listening to stakeholder issues, reassuring them, and closing the feedback loop. 
• Coordinating with other Scrum Masters in the organization to ensure the implementation of Scrum principles throughout the workforce.
• Helping developers do their best, even though they don't delegate tasks themselves.

What You Know

• Proven experience in creating, onboarding, and integrating project teams, ensuring responsibility alignment across all parties.
• Demonstrated expertise in implementing agile engineering practices, including the use of Continuous Integration (CI) tools for team efficiency.
• Skilled in facilitating Agile ceremonies and coaching teams on Scrum processes to enhance collaboration and productivity.
• Proficiency in maintaining and prioritizing product backlogs with relevant features and tasks for effective market delivery.
• Ability to facilitate seamless communication and information exchange between project teams and external groups.
• Experienced in monitoring project progress and providing timely feedback to guide team performance and alignment.
• Ability to drive a culture of agility and continuous learning within teams and across the organization.
• Skilled in obtaining stakeholder buy-in, addressing concerns, communicating Scrum benefits, and closing feedback loops.
• Experience in collaborating with other Scrum Masters to ensure cohesive Scrum principles across the organization.
• Proven track record of supporting development teams to perform at their best without direct task delegation.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Applications, or a related field

Benefits

• In addition to competitive salaries and benefits packages, Nisum US offers its employees some unique and fun extras:
• Professional Development - We offer in-house technical training and professional learning programs aimed at developing skills across a broad spectrum of topics such as technology, leadership, role-based training, and process expertise. We also offer an annual stipend for employees to attend external courses in order to maintain professional certifications
• Health & Wellness Benefits - We believe that your health and welfare are important, and we strive to ensure that you have affordable options available to you, including some plans that are subsidized for employees and their families up to 90%. We also have dental and vision plans in the US where Nisum pays 100% of premiums for employees
• Volunteerism Pay - We believe in giving back and in the US, our employees are eligible for up to 40 hours of paid time off each year to volunteer towards the causes that they are most passionate about. This is in addition to personal PTO and paid holidays
• Additional Benefits - We offer all the other important benefits to keep employees and their families healthy and financially secure, such as 401(k) retirement savings with a company match, pre-tax parking and transit programs, disability insurance, and Basic Life/AD&D, alongside exclusive employee discounts on a wide variety of products and services

Compensation Band

• $100-105k per year

Nisum is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity and inclusion in the workplace.