Selective Insurance · 4 days ago

Scrum Master

Charlotte, NC

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$104K/yr - $150K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Act as an agile leader and coach for two agile teams of low to moderate complexity, each generally ranging in size from 5 – 12 individuals.

Be a key member of an Agile team launch and / or Agile Release Train launch, if applicable.

Participate with oversight within Agile Release Trains and Scrum Teams as defined agile roles designated by SAFe, particularly Scrum Master.

Facilitates and coaches their teams on agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, and Retrospective. Coaching of other agile team members and their Product Owners in Lean/Agile values, practices, tools, and methodologies.

Participate in and facilitate team level planning, execution, and continuous improvement.

Accountable for delivery for small to moderately sized epics across the entire application lifecycle, aligned with an agile methodology. This includes project initiation, facilitating project scope management, addressing dependencies across teams, providing status, and managing risks/issues.

Facilitate the creation and maintenance of Product Vision and Roadmaps to enable teams to align execution to business value. Work with project leadership to report status, escalate and resolve issues, and communicate changes in scope or execution.

Work with Product Owner and Development Teams to facilitate the refinement, estimation, planning, and execution of features and stories in alignment with Agile Best Practices.

Drives continuous improvement on agile teams using techniques such as Inspect & Adapt, Retrospectives, and Root Cause Analysis.

Facilitate tracking and reporting of agile metrics at the team level such as lead time, velocity, defect leakage, etc. to encourage transparency and continuous improvement.

Partner with the Release Train Engineer on SAFe facilitation and execution.

Qualification

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Required

Strong leadership and communication skills

Ability to work directly with technical and product teams

Has been accountable for delivery effort of $250,000 or more

Knowledge of modern Agile frameworks and practices such as Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, test driven development, and test automation, as well as the underlying principles

Proficient with Agile project management software such as Rally or Jira (Microsoft Azure DevOps preferred)

Understanding of and experience with servant leadership, as well as influence without (formal management) authority

5+ years of related experience in software development, with 1+ years direct Agile Scrum or Kanban experience

Understanding and ability to execute and coach at the team level of SAFe: e.g. Agile Teams and Product Owner