Scrum Master

As a Scrum Master, you will act as an Agile enthusiast, promoting and advocating for Agile development while pulling from the best practices of other methodologies to run projects effectively.  

You will manage large, complex integrated projects and integrated schedules. You will implement program management frameworks and help to build best practices for the organization as the project teams move to a more Agile mentality. You will serve as the liaison between the business (represented by the Product Owner or Product Manager) and Agile software development teams. You will lead an Agile team to reach peak productivity through coaching and mentoring, resolving impediments blocking the team, and helping to track team progress while solving future problems that may arise. You will play a critical role in the organization’s adoption of Scrum and other Agile development practices. 

You will facilitate and coordinate actions and requirements between business and technical teams and will participate in the end-to-end lifecycle of an application leveraging Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid methodologies. 

This person must be in the Seattle Metro area and may be expected to be in person in the office up to three days a week (initially).  

• Develop and manage detailed project plans, milestone schedules, project estimates, and resource plans.  
• Identify, track and help remove impediments. 
• Lead the organization and act as a change agent for Lean-Agile techniques, processes, and principles. 
• Facilitate all team meetings, including, when applicable, the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review and Iteration Retrospective. 
• Ensure deliverables are aligned to stakeholder expectations.  
• Identify risks in project schedules and communicate them to stakeholders. 
• Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor and develop detailed project schedules, and compile statistics and reports to summarize progress of project. 
• Manage parallel work streams to make sure projects stay in scope, are delivered on time and within budget. 
• Coach and mentor, the organization to facilitate adoption of Agile principles as needed.  
• Help the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitate the team retrospective. Teach problem solving techniques and help the team become better at problem solving for themselves. 
• Interact closely with key stakeholders to ensure vision and strategy serve as the teams’ guideposts for backlog priority; support Product Owners and Business Owners in creating, refreshing, and grooming the backlog. 
• Facilitate key Agile ceremonies and ensure their efficiency, to include stand-up, sprint planning, sprint demo, retrospective. 

• 5 years minimum of formal project management work experience. 
• Applied experience with, and “fluency” in multiple system development life-cycle methodologies, such as Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid. 
• History of running Agile projects or working within an Agile project team.  
• Ability to approach Agile adoption with patience and pragmatism and the flexibility to use best practices from other methodologies or pivot as needed. 
• Ability to be an advocate for and influence the Agile transition. 
• Lead and support teams in defining roadmaps aligned with business strategy while delivering outcomes with maximum efficiency and value creation. 
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects of differing sizes and complexity. 
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to actively listen and proactively question. 
• Ability to manage and motivate resources in a matrixed environment. 
• Intellectually curious, self-driven, highly motivated and productive; able to work on multiple projects in parallel. 
• Ability to think independently and take initiative with minimal direction or supervision.  
• Embody Agile culture and mindset as a passionate individual of change: collaboration, collective sense of responsibility,simplicity, customer-focus, iterative and continuous improvement. 
• Experience leading scaled Agile (SAFe) IT initiatives is highly desired. 

Sila will not sponsor any employee in this position for a work visa, now or in the future.

(This includes those on H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant or immigrant status)

About Sila

Sila is a technology and management consulting firm that delivers solutions to the world’s leading corporations. Our solutions expertise lies in the areas of risk management, data analytics, software engineering and integration, strategy and transformation, and digital creative services. We are a values-driven company with a culture that fosters collaboration, creativity, and social responsibility. Sila employees are part of a community of vibrant, high-performing contributors who push each other to achieve the highest standard of excellence. Our team members have extensive opportunities to discover their passions and shape their own career paths, and we continually invest in employees’ growth through innovative training, mentorship, and professional development programs. Staff are quickly immersed in clients’ business challenges, work closely with emerging technologies to develop impactful solutions to these challenges, and are exposed to a variety of industries and market offerings.

We are looking for full-time employees to become an integral part of our growing team. Sila has embraced a national workforce of office-based and remote team members. We are headquartered in Seattle, WA, with hubs in Shelton, CT and Washington, D.C. 

Sila offers a range of great benefits including a comprehensive healthcare package, 401K with matching, paid time off, and paid company holidays, as well as other unique benefits that support our staff’s active work/life balance.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.