Job Summary:
The Senior Scrum Master plays a leading role in fulfilling the vision, driving the implementation of the Earth Data Cloud, and ensuring Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles, guidelines and core values are followed by the team. The top candidate will be skilled at not only ensuring timely and quality delivery of solutions to the customer but also inspires motivated high-performing teams.
Responsibilities:
- Coach the Agile team in using the SAFe methodology and Agile scrum practices
- Support the product owners and Agile teams to achieve customer satisfaction and business value
- Lead the Agile teams in self-organization; resolve conflicts; manage risk; and escalate when appropriate
- Facilitate team daily stand-ups, demos, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog refinement; prepare the team for Planning Intervals (PI) and drive the team towards a committed PI plan
- Identify and remove impediments and coaches the Agile teams on removing impediments
- Design and implement team performance metrics and collaborates with ART leadership to implement ART metrics; drive towards data driven decisioning
- Help the teams to identify and drive improvements within the team and the ART.
Required Skills:
- Previous experience leading an Agile team within the SAFe or Agile at Scale construct
- Ability to analyze and think quickly; resolve conflict; intellectually curious
- Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and experience with successful Agile techniques
- Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
- Ability to adapt to a changing environment
- Humble, empathetic and team-oriented
- Working knowledge of Atlassian stack, specifically Jira and Confluence
Desired Skills:
- Good understanding of cloud engineering solutions and services
- Experience with implementing quality engineering practices (paired programming, test-driven development, etc.)
- Experience defining and visualizing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Sure Secure Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, including Vets and Disabled. Employment contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation.
At Sure Secure Solutions we have an enjoyable working environment, offering competitive benefit packages and surrounded with professionals who have the subject matter expertise to develop innovative, cutting-edge business solutions in an ever-evolving technology landscape. The benefits include Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Life insurance, Long and short-term disability, Paid time off, 401(k) Retirement plan. More specific information on benefits eligibility will be provided as part of the interview process.
This is a full-time Role. U.S. citizenship is required. All candidates must be able to obtain a National Agency Clearance with Inquiries (NACI).