Scrum Master

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Job Title: Scrum Master (Job ref. 7XYWR733)

Job Type: Full-time, remote

Effort Schedule: 8 Hours/Day

Project Communication & Documents: English

The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring Agile in general, and Scrum framework in particular is understood and enacted. She/He ensures that the Team adheres to Scrum practices, culture, values and that it understands the chosen framework's theory, practices, and rules. She/He helps those outside the Team understand which of their interactions with the Team are helpful and which are not. She/He helps everyone change these interactions to improve the performance of the Team. She/He challenges the Team to achieve best quality, user alignment, value creation and team engagement.

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Responsibilities

• Understands and practices Agility;
• Provides leadership in the adoption of Agile practices, culture and values by teams across a portfolio of projects;
• Secures and promotes the Scrum framework, tools and practices
• Facilitates Scrum events as requested or needed;
• Acts as the point of contact between the team and the organization to make sure the required skills are staffed allowing efficient product development;
• Implement risk monitoring, progress and performance indicators, as well as follow-up animation with the Product Owner for the Business Lines and the IT Department;
• Continuously improve working methods;
• Facilitate the management of dependencies;
• Facilitate the resolution of problems and conflicts;
• Responsible for the production and maintenance at the right level of Operational Quality of IT product(s);
• Implement and manage the operational quality of the Product in series life (maintaining the product in operational conditions, availability, escalation chains, incidents and bugs, management of obsolescence, etc.);
• Ensures functional management of the team;
• Validates and reports the forecast and the cost of its resources and means;

Activities with the Product Owner

• Helps the PO achieve product objectives using Scrum;
• Helps the PO keep focused on value creation and customer alignment;
• Helps the PO understand product planning in an empirical environment;
• Ensures that the PO knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value;

Activities with the Team

• Enables the Team to improve its efficiency and quality of deliverables by following Agile development best practices;
• Motivates the Team and embodies positive and constructive mindset on top of Agile values and culture;
• Facilitates project level obstacle removal and team consensus on solutions;
• Coaches the Team in self-organization and cross-functionality
• Protects the team from external interruptions;
• Helps the Team to create high-value products;
• Helps to understand the need for clear and concise User Stories;
• BuildsAgile dashboards and coordinates Agile artifacts delivery, including technology and business value deliverables;
• Communicates on development progress;
• Installs a culture of continuous improvement during development;
• Coaches the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.

Activities with the Organisation

• Leads and coaches the organization in its SAFe, Agile & Scrum adoption;
• Helps employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development;
• Causes change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team;
• Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization;
• Knowledge and understanding of the Agile Manifesto and Agile methodologies, from a theoretical and a practical standpoint;
• Awareness on technical practices: Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, DevOps;
• Good knowledge of Jira and Confluence;
• Proven success working in a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment;
• At least 3 years of experience in Agile project as a Scrum Master
• Fluent in English/ French is highly appreciated;
• SAFe practice is required (certification is a plus)