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Job Title: Scrum Master (Job ref. 7XYWR733)
Job Type: Full-time, remote
Effort Schedule: 8 Hours/Day
Project Communication & Documents: English
The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring Agile in general, and Scrum framework in particular is understood and enacted. She/He ensures that the Team adheres to Scrum practices, culture, values and that it understands the chosen framework's theory, practices, and rules. She/He helps those outside the Team understand which of their interactions with the Team are helpful and which are not. She/He helps everyone change these interactions to improve the performance of the Team. She/He challenges the Team to achieve best quality, user alignment, value creation and team engagement.
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Responsibilities
- Understands and practices Agility;
- Provides leadership in the adoption of Agile practices, culture and values by teams across a portfolio of projects;
- Secures and promotes the Scrum framework, tools and practices
- Facilitates Scrum events as requested or needed;
- Acts as the point of contact between the team and the organization to make sure the required skills are staffed allowing efficient product development;
- Implement risk monitoring, progress and performance indicators, as well as follow-up animation with the Product Owner for the Business Lines and the IT Department;
- Continuously improve working methods;
- Facilitate the management of dependencies;
- Facilitate the resolution of problems and conflicts;
- Responsible for the production and maintenance at the right level of Operational Quality of IT product(s);
- Implement and manage the operational quality of the Product in series life (maintaining the product in operational conditions, availability, escalation chains, incidents and bugs, management of obsolescence, etc.);
- Ensures functional management of the team;
- Validates and reports the forecast and the cost of its resources and means;
Activities with the Product Owner
- Helps the PO achieve product objectives using Scrum;
- Helps the PO keep focused on value creation and customer alignment;
- Helps the PO understand product planning in an empirical environment;
- Ensures that the PO knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value;
Activities with the Team
- Enables the Team to improve its efficiency and quality of deliverables by following Agile development best practices;
- Motivates the Team and embodies positive and constructive mindset on top of Agile values and culture;
- Facilitates project level obstacle removal and team consensus on solutions;
- Coaches the Team in self-organization and cross-functionality
- Protects the team from external interruptions;
- Helps the Team to create high-value products;
- Helps to understand the need for clear and concise User Stories;
- BuildsAgile dashboards and coordinates Agile artifacts delivery, including technology and business value deliverables;
- Communicates on development progress;
- Installs a culture of continuous improvement during development;
- Coaches the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.
Activities with the Organisation
- Leads and coaches the organization in its SAFe, Agile & Scrum adoption;
- Helps employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development;
- Causes change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team;
- Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization;
- Knowledge and understanding of the Agile Manifesto and Agile methodologies, from a theoretical and a practical standpoint;
- Awareness on technical practices: Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, DevOps;
- Good knowledge of Jira and Confluence;
- Proven success working in a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment;
- At least 3 years of experience in Agile project as a Scrum Master
- Fluent in English/ French is highly appreciated;
- SAFe practice is required (certification is a plus)
