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R0039586 Scrum Master (Hybrid)
Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information services. Professionals in the areas of legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare rely on Wolters Kluwer's market leading information-enabled tools and software solutions to manage their business efficiently, deliver results to their clients, and succeed in an ever more dynamic world. Wolters Kluwer combines deep domain knowledge with specialized technology. Our portfolio offers software tools coupled with content and services that customers need to make decisions with confidence. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve the way we do business, build better judicial and regulatory systems. We help them get it right.
Job Posting Title: Scrum Master (Hybrid)
As a Scrum Master, you will act as a servant leader and team level coach for multiple scrum teams, managing, driving, and improving all aspects of our Agile practices. Will facilitate agile ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint demos. Guide, coach and motivate the team with the goal of increasing productivity. Participate, and contribute to quarterly PI planning events.
Under direct supervision, oversees a small project or phases of a larger project. Responsible for coordinating activities of project team, identifying appropriate resources needed, and developing schedules to ensure timely completion of project. Must be familiar with system scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member, in order to effectively coordinate the activities of the team.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- As a Scrum Master working with two or more teams, you will have a central role in helping our teams execute agile product and development practices and ensure they can work together effectively across teams and geographies.
- Run Agile activities (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) to aid multiple teams in delivering solutions.
- Educate teams in Agile practices, facilitate Scrum ceremonies, centralize and escalate impediments and shield them from external distractions.
- Ensure teams’ actions are aligned with the project goals, vision of the company, and Program Increment
- Support the Product Owner with grooming/refining and maintaining the product backlog.
- Plan and track deliverables and help team monitor performance.
Interpersonal Skills:
- Servant Leader - earn the team's respect and roll up your sleeves to help the team succeed.
- Communicative and social - interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types.
- Assertive - must be able to ensure agile and scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, and not afraid to be a voice of reason and authority.
- Situationally Aware - must notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to the team and to management, as appropriate.
- Enthusiastic - must be high-energy. An active participant in all team activities. A passionate advocate for quality and the agile mindset.
- Attitude of transparency - must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about the team and grow business trust
Qualifications:
- Thorough understanding of Agile principles, values, and practices, and the ability to apply them effectively.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- 2+ years of experience playing the Scrum Master role for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
- Experience of configuring and optimizing usage of agile backlog management software like Azure DevOps or similar
- Experience with facilitating the discussions of complex, high value IT delivery projects that require the coordination of development work or technology work on multiple platforms to achieve desired functionality
Nice to Have:
- Familiar with ERP’s
- SAFe 5.0-6.0 certification highly preferred (SAFE Agilist, SAFe Practitioner, SAFe Scrum Master)
- Experience in leading, organizing, running PI planning and ART events
- Experienced working with multiple product teams that have differing levels of Agile maturity
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing
- Knowledge of DevOps and technical domain
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