Senior Scrum Master

Job title:

Senior Scrum Master

Company

EMC Insurance

Job description

At EMC, you’ll put your skills to good use as an important member of our team. You can count on gaining valuable experience while contributing to the company’s success. EMC strives to hire and retain the best people by engaging, developing and rewarding employees.Essential Functions:

• Leads project teams through iterative development
• Acts as a servant leader to the team and facilitates Agile ceremonies
• Collaborates with IT, the business area and development teams to refine, organize and prioritize requests in accordance with corporate strategies and goals
• Facilitates and leads individual Scrum teams in all aspects of Scrum: daily standups, planning, self-organization, collaboration and iterative development
• Develops quality metrics for the benefit of the team in order to drive feedback
• Mentors the project team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and helps drive them towards continuous Agile improvement

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Ten years of experience in the field of IT Projects, including three years of experience as a Scrum Master in an Agile software development environment or related experience
• Project management, business analyst or product owner experience
• Certified Scrum Master preferred

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Advanced understanding of the Scrum framework and Agile development techniques
• Strong facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives
• Knowledge of application development, database, infrastructure, internet, extranet and client server architectures
• Strong understanding of the importance of automated testing, efficient story writing and acceptance test-driven development
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Ability to deal with conflict, motivate and drive teams to be high performing
• Excellent leadership and organizational skills
• JIRA, JIRA Portfolio knowledge preferred

Our employment practices are in accordance with the laws that prohibit discrimination due to race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, active military status, citizenship status, marital status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.All of our locations are tobacco free including in company vehicles.

Expected salary

Location

USA

Job date

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:48:43 GMT

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