Scrum Master

Itero Group is a Women-Owned Small Business focused on simplifying complex transformations. We empower clients in both the private and government sectors to become more optimized, digitally enabled, and data-driven organizations through our comprehensive business consulting and innovative delivery solutions.

Itero Group's dedicated team members have experienced thought leaders, tenacious workers, and creative thinkers. We hire people who are passionate about being catalysts for change - in our company, for our clients, and throughout our communities – and we empower people to express their ideas, create better practices, innovate better products, and become better professionals.

We have been named a Great Place to Work for four years, offer a competitive salary and benefits package. We are hiring a Scrum Master for a remote opportunity.


Responsibilities and Duties:
• Provide Agile training and coaching for Scrum teams and leadership to ensure the adoption and improvement of Scrum practices, processes, and desired outcomes and to establish a culture of self-organizing, cross-functional, and accountable teams
• Schedule and facilitate Scrum meetings as required including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, and Sprint Reviews to enable teams to plan and deliver customer value based on the highest priority and the team's available capacity.
• Assist teams to identify, communicate and resolve or escalate impediments and issues; Run interference for non-critical unplanned work that may prevent the team from completing their planned Sprint goal
• Utilize appropriate tools, metrics, and techniques to successfully guide the team's progress against the Sprint Plan
• Drive continuous improvement through the facilitation of team and leadership retrospectives, ensuring teams effectively prioritize, plan and execute improvement ideas
• Help those outside the Scrum teams understand which of their interactions with the Scrum teams are helpful and which ones are not
• Additional duties as assigned

Qualifications:
• Education Level - Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Business Administration/Management.

Experience –
• 5 years of Scrum Master experience
• Accounting Industry experience preferred

Specific skills
• Possesses an in-depth understanding of agile principles; has a firm understanding of SDLC and agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and XP)
• Possesses training, coaching, facilitation, and collaboration skills to drive adoption of desired Agile mindset and behaviors, open transparency and collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Conflict Management, Problem Solving & Decision Making
• Demonstrates Outstanding Interpersonal Communication Skills
• Understands Change Management
• Displays self-awareness and empathy. Motivates encourages and empowers others.
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• Exhibits strong leadership and emotional intelligence. Is outgoing and able to connect with individuals and the team as a whole. Motivates encourages and empowers others
• Certifications – Certified Scrum Master

If you are looking for a role where you will lead with integrity, create and innovate, inspire excellence, be a respected team member, drive results, and have fun, we look forward to connecting with you!

Itero Group is an equal-opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, physical or mental disability, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, or political affiliation.