Scrum Master

Client: sammons financial Location: remote Duration: 1 year+ Job Desc: We are currently looking for Sr Scrum Master with proven experience in the following areas: • Experience helping organizations move from project and waterfall thinking to product and agile mindsets • Effectively building and enabling collaborative, self-directed teams • Must be able to collaborate, communicate, and work effectively with different types of users and at all levels of the organization Work within a culture that demonstrates accountability, integrity, openness, and respect. Preferred Location Des moines but Remote is OK • Collaborates with Product Owner and Solution Architect to understand requests, capabilities, and delivery schedules. • Identifies and resolves impediments that are inhibiting the Agile Team from meeting Sprint Goal and/or other commitments. • Creates an environment conducive to team self-organization and collaboration. • Partners with Product Owner with respect to refining and maintaining the product backlog. • Collaborates with the team to ensure the product/feature backlog is organized, clear, and up to date. • Identifies and resolves and/or escalates roadblocks, issues, and conflicts within the team in a timely fashion. Shields the team from interruptions. • Coaches, mentors and motivates team members (internal and external) and influences them to take positive action and accountability for the team's work. Matures team in Agile practices by identifying team improvement opportunities and educating on best practices in order to increase productivity, quality and team health. *Good working relationship with hiring manager *PO has attended Product Academy and has prior Product experience from Principal Financial *Needs to have Product experience and be able to thoughtfully influence the teams to be more Product focused *3 teams with varying knowledge of Agile, Product and varying desires to move to a different way of working *Teams support Workflow, IAM

Created: 2024-10-22