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Scrum Master - Hybrid

Job Title
Scrum Master - Hybrid
Job ID
27736591
Location
Vienna, VA, 22180 
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Description
ROLE OVERVIEW 
The Sr Scrum Master facilitates and champions the agile software development process by coaching and mentoring development teams, identifying and eliminating impediments, and promoting the use of standards and best practices. The Sr. Scrum Master ensures the smooth operation of agile processes and activities and is responsible for leading daily stand-ups, backlog prioritization meetings, and retrospectives. Sr. Scrum Masters can provide coaching outside of the scrum team, assess their team’s agile maturity, deliver small amounts of training when needed, apply systems thinking or various scaled approaches, collaborate with other Agile Coaches, and be an active participant in a Community of Practice or Agile Center of Excellence. 

Required Experience: 
  • Experience as a Scrum Master in a SAFe framework 
  • Experience using Azure DevOps (ADO) 
  • Experience in the financial services industry 
  • 3+ years of demonstrated successful experience in a Scrum Master role 
  • Project Management experience a plus 
  • Some Experience working in a coaching capacity 
  • Some experience designing and delivering small training sessions 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 
  • Agile Scrum Mastering and Facilitation 
  • Ability to serve 1-2 agile teams 
  • Teach and coach teams and Product Owners on agile frameworks and ensure agile best practices are being used 
  • Lead teams, stakeholders, SMEs and Product Owners through sprint zero discovery and initial product backlog development to ensure teams are set up for success 
  • Organize, schedule, and facilitate all scrum ceremonies 
  • Track and communicate key metrics, such as team velocity and sprint/release progress with, and to all relevant teams, stakeholders, and management 
  • Responsible for team’s effective usage of agile tracking systems such as Jira 
  • Coach individual team members when needed and facilitate discussion and conflict resolution 
  • Identify and reduce external team dependencies 
  • Determine and remove obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver 
  • Promote continuous improvement and help teams to improve workflow, increase productivity, and deliver on outcomes 
  • Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity and innovation Coaching 
  • Ability to coach product owners and business leaders and business stakeholders 
  • Ability to design and deliver small training courses when needed 
  • Ability to apply a systems thinking or scaled approach when needed 
  • Ability to assess the team’s and organization’s agile maturity and determine which agile practices to apply 
  • Ability to collaborate with other coaches and be an active participant in a Community of Practice or Agile Center of Excellence. 

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.  EEO IS THE LAW CC Pace invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan.  This plan is available for inspection upon request. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us.
 


QUALIFICATIONS 
 
Education/Training: 
-Bachelor’s degree in Business / Marketing / Finance / Operations / Computer Science or related field required 
-Advanced Scrum Master Certification required (A-CSM or PSM II) 

-CSP, SSM, and CSPO certificates are a plus 
-Coaching certificates are a plus (ICP-ACC, SAFe SA, CTC, CAC)