Scrum Master - Information Technology

Scrum Master
 

WorldStrides is seeking Scrum Master to provide servant leadership to our IT teams, educate colleagues on agile and scrum practices, and serve as a change agent as we continue through our agile transformation. The Scrum Master will serve on 1-2 teams enabling them to deliver on commitments of scope, schedule, budget, and quality.

Tasks and Responsibilities
• Drive adoption and understanding of agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban
• Provide continuous coaching on agile principles and best practices
• Help teams inspect, adapt, deliver, and mature
• Facilitate team meetings, including the Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Backlog Grooming, and Sprint Retrospective
• Support the Product Owner in backlog prioritization and management
• Supports team in adhering to definition of ready and definition of done
• Eliminate impediments for the team so they can focus on achieving sprint goals
• Facilitate or support cross team dependencies
• Collect, track, and report upon key metrics to evaluate and incent team performance
• Play an integral role in ensuring releases are handled effectively
• Identify and escalate risks to project delivery
• Facilitate estimation and planning activities to ensure team's approach will deliver desired business value
• Contribute to the broader IT agile/scrum community
• Ability to motivate others
• Willingness to step in and fill gaps, as needed

Work Experience
• 1-3 years’ experience as Scrum Master
• Demonstrated knowledge and proficiency with agile concepts
• Demonstrated leadership skills with project and/or technical teams
• Demonstrated experience coaching and mentoring others in agile

Desired
• Strong written / verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational skills with an attention to detail and quality
• Excellent relationship and collaboration skills
• Ability to deal effectively with challenging situations
• Ability to think critically and apply appropriate judgment and creativity to a wide variety of information technology issues
• Experience with enterprise agile planning tools (e.g. Jira)
• Experience with enterprise software development preferred

Education
• Bachelor’s degree from accredited University or College
• Agile certifications (e.g. Certified Scrum Master)

To apply, please go on: 

https://worldstrides.com/about/careers/