Senior Scrum Master

Company: Eliassen Group
Location: Reston
Posted on: November 12, 2021

Job Description:

Eliassen Agile is HIRING for experienced, senior-level Scrum Masters.
In this role, you are expected to perform as a servant leader for the team or group of teams that you would be facilitating and serving. Candidates are expected to understanding agile processes, ceremonies, how to facilitate daily stand ups, be a champion for team members, and remove impediments. Candidates will be expected to be able to work with teams in various stages of the forming, storming, norming, and performing stages of teams.
Eliassen Group Scrum Masters serve in the role of Scrum Master for 1-2 teams depending on circumstances. Our Scrum Masters are typically brought in when there are not enough internal candidates or to serve as an example for internal candidates until they are ready to assume the role.--We remove team impediments and facilitating Agile practices.--
Responsibilities:

• Work within the core delivery team empowered/tasked with design, development, modification, and implementation of computer applications, and building high performing delivery teams. Serve as Scrum Master for a software development team.
• Utilize project coordination expertise and tools such as Rally and MS-Project to support upstream and downstream teams throughout SDLC.
• Engage stakeholders, contributors and technical resources to analyze user needs and resource limitations.
• Facilitate the discussions of complex, high value IT delivery projects that require the coordination of development work or technology work on multiple platforms to achieve desired functionality.
• Serve as knowledge source within project teams as assigned.
• Communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to backlog owners and stakeholders
• Represent the team daily at the Scrum of Scrums (S2) meeting to report impediments for escalation.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies for the team (S1, Planning, Retrospective, Grooming & Review/Demo).
• Facilitate impediment resolution in a timely, cost effective manner.
• Track and produce key metrics (e.g., burn-down, burn-up charts)
• Act as a conduit to other teams and LOBs with which the team is interacting.

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