We are looking for an Delivery Lead who is well-versed in the scrum approach to development – comfortable working in partnership with our product owners to create a delivery roadmap that responds to their vision of product evolution. You manage expectations based on realistic appraisal of velocity, but you have a sense of urgency. You hold your team accountable to operate at their best and in doing so you lead by example.

About the Role:

You will be responsible for serving the role of scrum master on existing and newly formed scrum teams. Key skills/responsibilities:

• A problem-solver who works by forging consensus and bringing out a team’s innate wisdom
• Comfortable and excited by information technology
• Able to plan and facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Stand Ups, Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, Backlog Grooming and Story Grooming
• Skillful facilitation of Retrospectives and the ability to apply learnings a must
• Able to plan and execute productive meetings that define clear actionable next steps to move your projects forward
• Lead by example, you express the same enthusiasm, drive and focus you expect from your team – you mentor and coach with tact and precision
• Maintain relevant metrics and information radiators to guide the development teams and show their progress in meeting business objectives
• Partner with product owner/product manager to effectively create, maintain and refine the product backlog
• Facilitate communication channels for the Scrum/Kanban teams and associated business and technical stakeholders to ensure the vision, goals, progress and product delivery commitments are visible and well understood
• Identify and remove impediments and blockers that prevents the teams from delivering their sprint goals
• Manage the team dependencies and coordinate work with other internal or external teams
• Experienced using tools to productive effect (ADO and JIRA Experience, especially with the JIRA Agile plugin strongly preferred)
• Be a champion for Agile transformation in our organization

About You

• Bachelors Degree in applicable field
• Demonstrable 5+ years hands-on experienced with Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies
• Experience providing facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, team empowerment and motivational techniques regarding Agile and Scrum/Kanban
• Ability to balance several projects across more than one team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Understanding of full life cycle development: requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding, unit testing, and acceptance testing and how these activities can fit into a Scrum environment
• Experience with software delivery in the Cloud is a plus
• Experience using Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams
• Must be a certified Scrum Master, holding either a PSM or CSM
• Strong analytical and design skills
• Must be able to work independently as well as collaboratively.

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