What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Scrum Master position at Miratech?
Company Description*
What We Do*
Miratech helps visionaries to change the world. We are a global IT services and consulting company that brings together global enterprise innovation and start-up innovation. Today we support digital transformation for the largest enterprises on the planet.
By partnering with both large and small players, we stay at the leading edge of technology, remain nimble even as a global leader, and create technology that helps our clients further enhance their business. Our culture of Relentless Performance enables over 99% of Miratech’s engagements to succeed by meeting or exceeding scope, schedule and/or budget objectives since our inception in 1989.
Job Description
Scrum Master takes on various roles based on the maturity level of the Agile team. Clearly the success of any Agile team is based on the effective partnership of scrum master and the team, collaborating, and embracing Agile principles. As a scrum master you naturally have a servant leader and coach mindset. You will identify needs, remove impediments, and contribute as necessary to ensure the performance and success of the team. This position requires a leader accountable for maximizing the business value produced by the team, including throughput and delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Participate on various projects in multiple global cross functional teams using Agile methodology (Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe).
- Helping the product owner and development team to achieve business value by adopting Agile practices.
- Coach development teams in self-organization.
- Tactically identify impediments and blockers, track and help remove them accordingly.
- Help the teams to accomplish Sprint goals & PI OKRs by following ceremonies and planning / estimation of epics in Agile tools.
- Exercise empathy and resolve conflicts and issues that occur.
- Help the Agile team achieve higher levels of Agile maturity.
- Support the product owner and provide education where needed especially in Product Backlog health, Dependency Management to better manage Releases.
- Effectively manage and facilitate cross-functional team ceremonies to support development and product releases.
- Ability to identify pain points for Agile teams and bring in fresh practical ideas.
- Clear and strong communication, interpersonal skills.
- Showcases Agile PMO goals by adapting to a dynamic environment and quickly pivot to support the business needs.
- Self-motivated and can stay focused in the middle of distraction.
- Participate in increment planning sessions to establish scope and build release plans.
- Partner and collaborate with team stakeholders, vendors, and dependent teams.
- Fosters a community mindset and partners with other scrum masters to share best practices by contributing to Agile CoE & coaching team.
- Embracing a diverse culture to partner with global team members and foster an inclusive environment.
- Exhibits a goal driven aptitude to take on stretch goals and contribute towards firmwide Agile Transformation initiatives.
- Pays attention to team needs and pivots his/her approaches accordingly to support the delivery of business value.
Qualifications
- 1-3 years of experience in Information Technology projects
- 1 years of experience in large-scale IT solutions leveraging Agile or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Experience in large-scale transformation programs, involving business process and change, organization change, and multiple large-scale technology components
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
- Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college/university
- Innovative self-starter with a passion to help teams embrace Agile.
- Collaborative work ethic working in a fast-paced environment
- Strong speaking and writing Chinese language
- Experience in Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, etc.
- Good understanding of the system development life cycle
- Ability to interact effectively with various levels within the organization
- Excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills
- Good stakeholder engagement skills, a pragmatic approach, and confidence to deliver projects in an environment undergoing significant transformation.
- Creativity in problem-solving and communicating.
- Self-motivated work ethic facilitation and managing activities throughout the various stages of the project lifecycle.
Additional Information*
We offer*
- Strong career opportunities for professionals
- A variety of international projects and mobility across projects
- Professional development support and professional certification opportunities
- Competitive compensation, advanced bonus systems
- Flexible working schedule with a remote possibility
- Corporate, social and cultural events
Job Type: Full-time