Scrum Master, Senior (NJUS)

Purpose of Position

The Senior Scrum Master is responsible for owning the Agile/Scrum process and ensures the development team members adhere to fundamental Agile concepts. Facilitates sprint and release planning, epic and user story creation and sizing, tracks progress and maintains sprint velocity and burn-up/burn-down progress reporting according to NetJets Agile/Scrum best practices. Contributes to a collaborative culture promoting quality and continuous improvement while cultivating innovation and new ideas. This position ensures the team discusses how well the process is working to produce the highest business value in the shortest amount of time while always seeking to continuously improve. Responsible for helping the team identify impediments to progress to the greatest extent possible, takes responsibility for ensuring impediments are resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Tasks And Responsibilities

Responsibilities in service to the Business:

• Ensure that the vision of the business - including goals, scope, and the context of the product are understood by everyone on the team
• Educate the scrum team(s) about why it's important that product backlog items are clear and concise
• Collaborate with the Solutions Manager to manage and maintain a lean backlog while experimenting with new ideas for managing it effectively
• Provide guidance to the Solutions Manager and development team to understand the estimating and release planning process utilizing user stories, story point estimates, and velocity.
• Facilitates scrum ceremonies
  
  

Responsibilities in service to the development team:

• Provide guidance to the development team to understand Agile/Scrum framework and ensure they are working within the NetJets Agile/Scrum defined process
• Teach/coach the team on how to become self-organized and cross-functional
• Ensure effective communication between the Solutions Manager and the development team
• Remove impediments
• Protect the development team from outside distractions
  
  

Responsibilities in service to the organization:

• Help the organization in its Agile/Scrum adoption
• Support Agile implementations within the organization
• Help those outside of the team understand Agile/Scrum and how it benefits the business
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of Agile throughout the organization
• Help those outside of IT understand which interactions with the team are helpful and those that impact progress being made and help change these behaviors to maximize value produced by the Scrum team
  
  

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Information Systems or Computer Science

Certifications and Licenses

Years Of Experience

4-6 years of experience

Core Competencies

Adaptability

Collaboration

Curiosity

Service-Oriented

Strives For Positive Results

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities And Other (KSAOs)

• Disciplined leader who adheres to core Agile principles in a highly matrixed environment
• Creative and driver of innovation while constantly challenging the team to improve
• Confident in owning a process and effective at influencing buy-in from others
• Always seeking to improve by asking the question - how can we do it better?
• Innate ability to learn and adapt to new concepts and ideas
• Outstanding oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Proven expertise in leading and facilitating meetings with diverse stakeholders, including building consensus and mediating compromises, when necessary
• Ability to break a complex problem down to its root cause and create a plan to solve
• Exercises good judgment and sound decision making when escalating issues
• Strong morals/ethics, humble, approachable, positive, social, and situationally aware