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Agile Delivery Lead

Job Summary: In the Scrum Master role, you’ll ensure your teams’ delivery success by leveraging the appropriate Agile methodology to enable predictable, quality delivery while maintaining a focus on the continuous improvement of the team. The Scrum Master will optimize team productivity by removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team’s goals and by preserving flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes on the team.

Duties:

• Supports one or more software engineering teams through Kanban/Scrum Agile methodologies
• Ensures team(s) maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery
• Provides visibility into delivery targets, commitments, and progress is well managed – understands and coaches the team on delivery controls, compliance to minimize operational, and reputational risk
• Understands domain architecture and targets to identify upstream and downstream dependencies and to support the team in risk management
• Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required)
• Supports Release Train Engineers, Product & Tech Teams to remove impediments and manage dependencies for delivery
• Integrates Agile and Lean principles into team practices and work products
• Coaches Product Owner and team on backlog refinement and prioritization
• Utilizes team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve
• Innovates with practices and frameworks through experimentation to improve the team and their delivery

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 2 + years of Agile experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe methodologies At least 1 year of experience working with engineering teams
• 2+ years of experience with Jira, Jira Align, or Confluence
• 4+ years of Agile experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe
• 4+ methodologies
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or PMI’s Agile Certified Professional (ACP) certification SAFe certified
• Or experience (or other scaled agile frameworks)