What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Scrum Master position at CSC?
Scrum Master
Remote or Wilmington, DE
As Senior Agile Scrum Master with the CSC Enterprise Technology Development Services Team, you will be part of a high performing and globally distributed (Wilmington, India, London) Agile Scum team that collaborates daily to deliver value. Code and quality are paramount – driven by the team’s strong dedication to technical quality and agile delivery. You would be responsible for contributing to that goal – every day, every sprint, and every release – by applying your skills to the products being created, improved, and enhanced.
The Senior Scrum Master will establish and maintain an environment where Infrastructure as Code (IaC) professionals are motivated to do their best work. Serving one or more teams, you will be championing Agile practices and driving continual improvement for those teams. We’re seeking an experienced technical leader-mentor-coach with a strong desire to lead global Agile teams.
Responsibilities
- Foster transparency and visibility, and radiate information—ensuring a team’s progress, obstacles, and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself
- Helping the organization reap the benefits of Agile at scale
- Be self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks
- Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, lessons learned, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
- Drive and ability to remove obstacles for team success, while also holding the team accountable
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint-release progress
- Ensuring the development teams practice the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
- Assist as needed with backlog maintenance
- Communicate project status and risks to stakeholders
- Gain and maintain a detailed understanding of business goals and platform capabilities
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
- Remove blockers to team progress and proactively help the team make improvements to avoid similar blockers in the future
- Lead working groups to meet Agile transformation deliverables such as identifying a standard set of project metrics, revising project templates, setting up communities of practice, and updating processes; work with the team to create a plan to meet deliverables, facilitate meetings, track progress and action items, take minutes, and update wikis
- Make recommendations regarding processes to adapt, change, or discard relating to project and portfolio management
- Assist with the development of custom Agile training for Scrum teams, Product Owners, and Scrum masters
- Create and maintain process documentation
- Perform additional tasks as necessary
Desired Skills and Experience
- An undergraduate degree in areas related to management information systems or business administration or related area
- CSM or CSP desired
- At least five years of previous Agile or Scrum project management experience within a software development environment
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle, configuration, and change control management
- Strong organizational and cross-team communication skills
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
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