Technical Scrum Master

The Technical , Scrum Master is chief responsible is to effectively and efficiently
manage the development sprints from planning to execution to review in an agile development
environment. Your role will include running daily scrums, managing the product backlog,
collaborating on requirement documentation, managing support tickets and unblocking barriers to
keep the team moving. You will be responsible to communicate and collaborate primarily with the
engineering, customer success and senior management teams.
The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong
leadership abilities and have the desire to be part of a fast-growing startup company where you’ll
have the opportunity guide the development of our portfolio of products.
Responsibilities
Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects
the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations
running at a high performance
Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their
practices to ensure maximum productivity
Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to
increase the velocity and quality of the program
Implement and support principles, rules and processes
Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support
estimates and execution
Presents high level project readouts for senior management
Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
Manage other special projects as assigned

Skills and Qualifications
BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
Minimum 5 years of Scrum Master experience working on Technology/Cloud/DevOps Platforms and leading sprints
Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’
needs
Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics
Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity,
user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email
Self-motivated, organized

Nice to have app dev or devops background