Position Summary:
The Scrum Master role will be responsible for successfully leading the teams through our continued adoption of Agile/Scrum and promoting our shared values and culture to ensure our practices improve and mature.
Responsibilities:
The Scrum Master is a dedicated team member responsible for enabling and promoting both high-performing Scrum teams and an effective Leadership team.
Responsibilities include:
- Adheres to published Stratus culture and expected behaviors, and promotes that culture within the organization
- Enforces Rules of Scrum (DoD, Roles, Ceremonies, Artifacts), practices and process
- Ensures effectiveness of all ceremonies: prepared and engaged Scrum teams, prepared and effective Leadership team
- Creates, maintains, and shares relevant metrics and charts that are important to the success of the team and its delivery, and to help with continuous improvement
- Promotes and advocates a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them
- Facilitates discovery and removal of obstacles
- Helps teams identify and manage dependencies and risks
- Maintains an awesome and effective Scrum Room environment if the team is meeting in person
- Creates tools and processes to facilitate on-line and remote participation in Scrum ceremonies
- Ensures the team is focused on Sprint commitments and helps shield the team from distractions, scope changes and hidden work
- Promotes a culture of collaboration and swarming within Scrum teams
- Collaborates with Leadership teams to ensure team success
- Runs regular Retrospectives, tracks results and helps promote any required improvements
- Ensures manager engagement to resolve team issues
- Ensures there is adequate backlog and the Scrum team is prepared for upcoming work
- Shares team experiences, solutions and education with peers (scrum masters)
- Continuous self-education and growth on Agile topics and brings fresh ideas to the teams
Experience:
- Experience partnering with US-based Product Management, Engineering and Services to drive product through development process and into production.
- 5+ years of relevant scrum master experience with a strong track record teams through multiple customer release cycles
Skills:
- Servant Leader with a passion to help Agile teams thrive and deliver high value products
- A great attitude & demeanor (Enthusiastic, positive, humble, social, organized, confident, patient, articulate, punctual, empathetic and fearless).
- Champion for Agility and possess deep knowledge of Scrum
- Experience coaching and educating team members on Agile and Scrum practices
- Focus on value delivery & frequent delivery of working software.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills; strong facilitation skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with product owners, team members, management and other Agile teams to achieve product delivery goals
- Builds and maintains Scrum rooms
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent required
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) certification (or equivalent) is preferred
Additional Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the individual for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Company Background:
For leaders digitally transforming their operations in order to drive predictable, peak performance with minimal risk, Stratus ensures the continuous availability of business-critical applications by delivering zero-touch Edge Computing platforms that are simple to deploy and maintain, protected from interruptions and threats, and autonomous.
For 40 years, we have provided reliable and redundant zero-touch computing, enabling global Fortune 500 companies and small-to-medium sized businesses to securely and remotely turn data into actionable intelligence at the Edge, cloud and data center – driving uptime and efficiency. For more information, please visit our career page at https://www.stratus.com/about/company-information/careers/.
Stratus is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or veteran status.