Senior Scrum Master

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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Scrum Master to join our Digital Nexus technology organization.

Responsibilities:

• Help grow a collaborative and continuously improving engineering culture; teach and serve as example to the team of Scrum and agile values and principals; coach and give feedback to individuals (including senior leadership) and teams; facilitate Scrum Events as a Scrum Master, as requested
• Deliver effective conflict resolution between individuals and teams with an assertive but friendly attitude with excellent interpersonal skills; present effective methods and practices for managing and resolving impediments
• Act as an expert in estimation and planning techniques; discuss and teach release planning in an empirical environment; explain the differences between various Scrum Scaling frameworks and approaches
• Advocate for modern agile software development and organizational practices, such as XP, CI/CD, Devops, and TDD; automate flow of Project Status and facilitate continuous & real-time transparency for effective communication, support and decision making
• Help individuals, teams, and programs to clarify goals and actions to achieve them; utilize techniques to improve the efficiency of the development team; provide scaling expertise to align multiple agile teams, collaborate and facilitate planning with large groups; guide Product Owners on managing scaled product backlog of epics and features, and facilitate decision making with Product Owners, and Architects; educate and support a Product Owner in effective techniques for backlog creation, management, and refinement
• Demonstrate effective techniques for managing team interruptions, and for protecting the team in a sprint; Work beyond team boundaries to improve efficiencies, flow of work, and value delivered

Qualifications:

• Minimum five years of recent experience and a proven track record at facilitating, coaching, and mentoring teams and leaders towards rapidly delivering high impact, high quality software in a sustainable fashion
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred; relevant practitioner level certifications (PSMII/CSP) are preferred
• Deep expertise in helping teams build and develop trust, safety, and effective communication
• Experience with full SW development life cycle and advocating for modern agile software development and organizational practices as well as collaborating with non-agile teams; technical experience developing software, portfolio level planning, and/or business experience is preferred; experience with agile tools and scaling them across multiple teams is a plus
• Excellent visualization skills with ability to explain and create visual radiators; demonstrated deep system level thinking and proven ability to impact whole program dynamics
• Strong verbal/written communication, with ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority; must be able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and teamwork; strong trouble-shooting and organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously; ability to participate in resource planning processes based on defined organizational plans

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Los Angeles / Irvine / Seattle / Bellevue Salary Range: Low: $109100 - High: $206300

San Jose / Walnut Creek / Santa Clara / San Francisco Salary Range: Low: $121000 - High: $228800

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Albany Salary Range: Low: $99200 - High: $187500

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