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Job Description 

The Cloud Data Enablement team is looking for a Lead Scrum Master who is passionate about building products that help Discover achieve the next level of growth in Data Analytics. This role would be accountable for the delivery of highly visible, cross-functional initiatives working closely with technical resources across the enterprise. 

As a Scrum Master, you will follow and promote agile methodology and all related scrum ceremonies within an agile team. You enable the team to work as effectively as possible and resolve obstacles so the team meets sprint objectives and releases stay on track. You coach the team to own and continuously improve their process and practices.

The ideal candidate must be detail oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, able to juggle multiple tasks at once, able to work independently and can maintain professionalism under pressure. You must be able to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages. You must be able to accurately prioritize projects, make sound judgments and work to improve the user experience.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for facilitating all Scrum ceremonies, such as Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retro, in addition to collecting and providing relevant data and metrics
• Drives team discussion & collaboration, coaching agile principles and the continuous improvement mindset in addition to helping manage impediment removal by working closely with other teams and impacted stakeholders
• Attends Scrum of Scrum meetings as needed to synchronize across teams and resolve blockers

• Facilitates Sprint release planning with Product Manager, Product Owner and stakeholders to determine the features, its sequence and expected timeline. Assists Product Manager, Product Owner roles with on-going backlog refinement
• Ensures sprint releases stay on track and updates sprint activities in agile planning and execution tracking tool. Assist with status reporting, velocity metrics, sprint accomplishments, in addition to socializing current risks and issues
• Partners with others in the Agile community (Scrum Masters, APMs and Agile Coaches) to drive technology-focused teams towards achieving Agile principles
• The Scrum Master will utilize team feedback and metrics (e.g., quality, delivery, cadence, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and work with team to continuously improve
• Experiment with new practices and frameworks to improve team outcomes
• Facilitates team activities including daily stand-up meetings, grooming, sprint planning, demonstrations, release planning, and team retrospectives. Manages sprint release deliverables and proactively identifies and resolves impediments. Ensures sprint releases stay on track and updates sprint activities in agile planning and execution tracking tool. Communicates agile team's progress, dependencies, and impediments. Participates in program increment (PI) planning events.
• Identifies dependencies between agile teams then communicates and resolves dependencies

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors degree in Business, Information Technology, or related 
• 4+ years of Agile, Scrum, or related experience 
• In lieu of a degree, 6+ years of Agile, Scrum, or related experience 

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

• Agile practice related Certifications a plus (CSM, CSP-SM, SAFe, etc.) 
• Strong background with Jira 

• Broad knowledge of IT Infrastructure platforms, technologies and principles, including on-prem and cloud environments. (Hardware, Network, Server, Virtualization, Middleware, Endpoint, Authentication, Security, Collaboration, etc..) 
• Broad knowledge of DevOps, automation principles and supporting technologies (ideally Chef, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, etc.) 
• Execution Focused
• Experience working for a large, highly sophisticated organization 
• Excellent communication (oral and written), organizational, and interpersonal skills 
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities 

• Strong ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language 

• Skilled at working within a team-oriented, collaborative environment

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