Scrum Master

Description 

You are a servant leader, communicative and social, you facilitate as much as you assert. You are situationally aware, enthusiastic and have as much of an interest in Kaizen as you have in conflict resolution.  Your attitude of empowerment and desire for transparency bring about disclosure to the business about development and business growth.

You have been actively implementing Scrum either in the financial world or somewhere else for around five years and you are looking for a new environment, an opportunity where not everything is quite as clear yet. Release management in a bank, funding models, those are all issues the Agile Centre of Excellence.  We are looking for an individual that strongly identifies with and embodies the spirit of the agile manifesto and its principles. A person ready to step up at anytime and become as much of a coach as they could be a Scrum Master.

Key Accountabilities:

• Serve as a senior team member, responsible for facilitating the adoption, implementation
  and sustainability of Agile processes, principles, and practices
• Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close cooperation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace
• Provide training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Teams (i.e., individual and workshops)
• Serve as an advisor to teams; leading by example and challenging the status quo
• Perform ongoing assessments of the teams’ Scrum maturity to inform ongoing support decisions
• Cultivate Communities of Practice
• Partner with Scrum Masters to identify and support opportunities to increase team maturity
• Help teams continuously reflect and improve, becoming more effective in their roles and
• Increasing their predictability, collaboration, and quality practices
• Promote environment and culture of experimentation and innovation
• Foster a trusting environment focused on servant leadership and continuous improvement
• Draft and maintain training materials, collect and collate feedback from training sessions
• Ensure Agile adherence and consistency while maintaining teams’ abilities to be self-directed
• Govern and life the values of the agile principles and practices