Senior Scrum Master
Hearst Magazines
Center Valley, PAThis was removed by the employer on 10/15/2019 11:06:00 PM PST
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We are in search of a Senior Scrum Master who lives and breathes Agile and is passionate about helping people, teams and organizations continuously improve. Our teams adhere to the Scrum framework at its core, including all roles and events. The ideal Senior Scrum Master will have the experience and ability to continuously enhance the way we develop and deliver, with the flexibility to know how to help cater these principles to our environment and teams. You will also manage a team of Scrum Masters and be responsible for their professional growth and ensure they are equipped to support their scrum teams' efforts to do amazing work.
Responsibilities:
• Manage a team of Scrum Masters and demonstrate through your actions the high standard for effectively leading Scrum teams
• Provide insight and create opportunities for team members to continually develop their skills and promote the value of Agile
• Nurture a culture of iterative and persistent improvement throughout the organization
• Act as Scrum Master for one or more teams, providing a learning environment to deliver business value
• Explore new tools and approaches to Scrum and Agile and infuse new ideas into the organization
• Develop a deep understanding of our products and vision to help guide our team
• Challenge, coach, and guide the organization using agile and lean principles
• Emphasize code quality through small, focused user stories; assist teams with a hands-on servant leader approach from inception to delivery of our work
• Ability to utilize agile methods in a flexible manner that often includes project management, adapting to the specific needs of the organization (which can include hard deadlines/fixed dates at times), and creatively problem solving
• Experiment with and integrate processes and tools that encourage continuous improvement
• Create metrics to provide teams and the organization with relevant feedback
Requirements:
• BS/BA or greater
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master
• 2 years of supervisor or management experience
• Knowledge of Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban, and other Agile development techniques
• Efficient verbal and written communication skills
• Comfort with ticketing tools such as JIRA
• Experience with large-scale application development