Agile Scrum Master

Roles & Responsibilities

• Facilitates Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint.

• Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.

• Provides visibility into the Agile team's delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders.

• Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal and compliance with Enterprise.

• Change Management and other policy requirements.

• Applies metrics to assess team delivery, maturity, and performance and identifies and shares improvement opportunities with the team.

• Partners with product stakeholders to ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog

• Provides coaching and mentoring to the team for them to become high performing by collaborating, focusing on continuous improvement including cross-training, and sharing knowledge on scrum practices and Agile principles.

• Leads scaled planning for the team including Pre Planning/Preparation and Program Increment Planning Events) and represents the team in Scrum of Scrums/Agile Release Train Syncsz.

• Organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum/Kanban-related meetings.

• Manage JIRA board and backlog for sprint execution.

• Facilitate the inter-connection and dialogue between multiple intersecting development contracts to help promote a cohesive final product for the customer.

• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and information sharing.

• Managing parallel application development and Project/Product implementation processes.

• Assisting team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; identifying and removing impediments.

• Preventing distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver on release goals; facilitating discussion and conflict resolution.

• Empowering the team to self-organize; improve the productivity of the teams; ensure that the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable code.

• Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress, maintaining process documentation.

• Updating physical and electronic agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product backlogs and in-progress work; supporting Development Manager and Project/Product Managers as necessary.

• Ensuring that development teams are practicing/following core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

• Work with Product Owners and Scrum Teams in requirements decomposition, backlog refinement, and breakdown of user stories and tasks.

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.
• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
• Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Salary Range : $90,000-$100,000 a year

Location

Addison, TX

Job Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Analyst

Job Id

Desired Skills

Agile | scrum master

Salary Range

$90,000-$100,000 a year

Desired Candidate Profile

Qualifications : BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE