Scrum Master

We are the leading provider of professional services to the middle market globally, our purpose is to instill confidence in a world of change, empowering our clients and people to realize their full potential. Our exceptional people are the key to our unrivaled, inclusive culture and talent experience and our ability to be compelling to our clients. You’ll find an environment that inspires and empowers you to thrive both personally and professionally. There’s no one like you and that’s why there’s nowhere like RSM.

The Scrum Master will 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.

ESSENTIALS DUTIES

• Be a point of contact for helping others be aware and understand agile best practices.

• 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 the team is always aligned with product/sprint goals.

• Leverage Azure Boards or another workflow tool, ensuring the team and stakeholders are getting proper value from the tool and visibility into the work coming into the team.

• Assist in implementing training programs.

• Partner with Lead Scrum Masters and RTE (if applicable) in planning efforts for the portfolio.

• Coach agile best practices to the scrum team. Continuously ensure agile best practices are being followed.

• 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 team and leadership to re-enforce and teach agile best practice.

• Always driving team to improve culture, processes, and delivery.

• Communicate changes, intended goals, timelines, and results.

• Implementing training programs.

• Monitor improvement in maturity, quality, predictability, and delivery as the adoption of agile practices increases to ensure coaching meets the required outcomes.

• Be a servant leader for scrum teams that are just starting their agile journey, assess, meet the team where they are, and setup plans to move the team forward.

• Other duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.

• One or more agile certifications preferred (e.g. CSM, CSPO, CSP, PSM, PSPO, SAFe).

TECHNICAL/SOFT SKILLS

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• 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 did not work.

• Strong Microsoft Office skills.

• Ability to prepare presentations including charts, graphics and tables, speaker notes & handouts, etc.

• Ability to communicate both verbally and written are essential to work closely with team members and managers, and effectively manage problems as they occur.

• Effective organization and time management skills.

• Strong attention to detail.

EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of Agile experience.

• Experience leading one to two scrum teams.

• Experience delivering IT products and services.

• Understanding of IT Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and delivery methodologies.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to create effective documents and review them with key project stakeholders and multiple levels of the organization.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Ability to work within multiple levels of the firm.

• Ability to deal with a variety of personalities.

• Ability to influence and negotiate with a diverse population.

• Ability to support, affect, and implement change.

At RSM, we offer a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our people. We offer flexibility in your schedule, empowering you to balance life’s demands, while also maintaining your ability to serve clients. Learn more about our total rewards at https://rsmus.com/careers/working-at-rsm/benefits https://rsmus.com/careers/el-salvador.html. 

RSM does not tolerate discrimination and/or harassment based on race; colour; creed; sincerely held religious beliefs, practices or observances; sex (including pregnancy or disabilities related to nursing); gender (including gender identity and/or gender expression); sexual orientation; HIV Status; national origin; ancestry; familial or marital status; age; physical or mental disability; citizenship; political affiliation; medical condition (including family and medical leave); domestic violence victim status; past, current or prospective service in the Salvadoran Military/Veteran status; pre-disposing genetic characteristics or any other characteristic protected under applicable provincial employment legislation.

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process and/or employment/partnership. RSM is committed to providing equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, interview, or otherwise participate in the recruiting process, please send us an email at [email protected].