Scrum Master

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to oversee and guide scrum teams. The Scrum Master responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments. To be successful as a Scrum Master, you should have a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively manage and mentor development teams. An outstanding Scrum Master should have excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Agile Ceremonies: Lead and facilitate Scrum events, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, fostering open communication and collaboration among team members.

• Coach and Mentor Teams: Provide guidance to development teams on Agile principles and Scrum practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability.

• Remove Impediments: Identify and eliminate impediments to the team's progress, ensuring a smooth and efficient development process.

• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with product owners to understand and prioritize requirements, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.

• Promote Agile Mindset: Encourage and promote an Agile mindset throughout the organization, emphasizing the importance of agility, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Metrics and Reporting: Track and report key Agile metrics, such as velocity and burndown charts, to monitor team progress and identify areas for improvement.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum of five (5) years of product or project development experience, or five (5) years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Scrum Master Certification from Scaled Agile Inc., Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org, IC Agile or similar. Experience working in a Scaled Agile Enterprise (SAFe) preferred.

• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles.

• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.

• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques.

• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices. 

• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques.

• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams.

Estimated base pay range for this role is $78,500 to $120,000 USD.

The base pay range shown is a guideline and reasonable estimate for this role. It takes into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions. Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted range based upon geographic location, work experience, skill level, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Non- sales roles may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive plan. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a sales incentive plan.  
Additionally, this position may be eligible for certain benefits, such as health insurance, life insurance, disability retirement plans, paid time off.
The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

The base pay range shown is a guideline and reasonable estimate for this role. It takes into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions. Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted range based upon geographic location, work experience, skill level, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Non- sales roles may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive plan. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a sales incentive plan.

Additionally, this position may be eligible for certain benefits, such as health insurance, life insurance, disability retirement plans, paid time off.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan

• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.