exp; 10
+TECHNICAL SKILLS
Must Have
- Must have hands on experience
successfully facilitating and leading Agile teams
- Should have knowledge and experience with Azure DevOps and Power
BI.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Key
Attributes:
- Scrum Master Experience - 3+ years
- Experience with Software Development teams
- Positive, Personable Personality – needs to be personable
and communicate well with his/her teams and with the team of other Scrum
Masters.
- Growth Mindset – We are constantly
looking for new ideas and tools to grow our Agile and Process Improvement
practice, so new SM should enjoy learning and trying new things and
researching new ideas and practices.
- Data Focused and Detail Oriented – We use metrics to
evaluate and improve our teams, and a lot of it. It requires someone
to be detail-oriented to ensure the data in Azure DevOps is accurate – it’s
a daily effort to do this.
- Can work Pacific Time hours – 7am – 4pm PT is
acceptable.
- Azure DevOps and Power BI – Extended experience and
familiarity with the tool (i.e. no training needed)
Pacific Life is looking for a Scrum Master who understands how the Scrum
framework can enable agility within a team, is passionate about Agile, has the
right mindset and is interested in helping to transform IT service areas to a
new way of partnering with their customers and delivering value quicker. We
are looking for a motivated individual that has the experience and overall
aptitude in the areas listed below.
Supporting, coaching and developing the Team:
- Facilitate and lead
Agile events with the goal of delivering customer value and fostering
continuous improvement amongst the team and the department
- Promote communication
and collaboration to build consensus for achievement
- Identify and help remove
impediments / distractions that interfere with the team’s ability to
deliver the sprint goal
- Empower teams and
facilitate creativity while guarding quality and monitoring progress *
Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical
advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software, systems
and capabilities to customers
- Support team with making
appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition *
Ensure team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog
items and achieves this through techniques such as user story mapping and
definition of ready / done.
- Proactively manage
cross-product team dependencies
- Update agile tracking
systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs * Guide
the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values
to achieve the desired mindset
- Build a trusting and
safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame,
retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving.
- Enforces the values and
principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops.
- Use data-focused metrics
to help improve and grow the Agile teams, with an attention to detail to
help ensure that the metrics are accurate and up to date.
Supporting the Product Owner, advocating on their behalf and championing the
goals and value delivered along the roadmap:
- Understand and be able
to articulate strategic and product plan goals and progress towards them
- Supports Product Owner
ensuring the product backlog is properly refined – prioritizing to
maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories
to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints.
- Assisting and supporting
the Product Owner and Team to continually improve the business value
delivered
Supporting the organization’s Agile journey with the focus on promoting,
educating and evangelizing:
- Work with one or more
scrum teams to educate them and promote Agile practices while acting as a
Servant Leader
- Foster and encourage
conversations and collaboration amongst scrum team(s), Product Owner(s),
practice areas and potentially Project Managers on the efficient delivery
of product increments through self-organized teams
- Disseminate relevant
information to the team, stakeholders, leadership and the PMO as needed.
Examples include the tracking and communication of team velocity and
sprint / release progress
- Work with other Scrum
Masters and practice leaders to recommend improvements, assist in rolling
out changes made to the practice and support the buildout of a continuous
process improvement focused organization. * Evangelize and educate the
organization on differences and benefits of an Agile mindset, Scrum
framework and other techniques required to move the organization forward
- Participate in the agile
community both internal to Corporate IT and external with other
practitioners
Qualifications:
- Senior level equivalent
expertise in any technical discipline is desirable
- Bachelors of Science
degree in any Technical, Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent
level experience
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum
Master (PSM) Industry certification preferred
- Experience as a Scrum
Master for IT teams preferred or equivalent track record of applying Scrum
principles, practices and theory in a product centric organization
- Advanced understanding
and a tool box of Agile practices such as: retrospectives, daily standups,
sprint planning, burn down techniques
- Experience within a
multi-team organization is desirable
- Ability to collaborate
and exercise influence without authority
- Excellent communication,
facilitation, and coaching skills
- Good skills and
knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution,
continual improvement practices.
- Knowledge of other Agile
approaches (XP, Kanban, Lean) and familiarity with scaled agile (SAFe,
LeSS, DaD, FLEX).
- Knowledge and/or
experience with widely successful Agile/DevOps techniques: User Stories,
ATDD, UTDD, Continuous Integration, Pairing, Agile Games
- Experience with Azure
DevOps preferred, but other Agile team tools such as Jira, Trello, or VSTS
is acceptable.
- Experience with Power BI reporting
preferred.
- Experience with Power
Automate is desirable.
- Participation in
industry agile communities of practice desired
- Can work during standard
Pacific Time hours (8am - 5pm PT preferred, 7am to 4pm PT is acceptable)
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