Scrum Master (IRC87287)

GlobalLogic Ukraine is inviting a Scrum Master to join its Kyiv office.

We develop different web and back-end solutions belonging to the Client's work order and service providing network:

A powerful cross-platform chat application that directly connects business owners and commercial service providers through the client's business network.

Variety of apps and APIs helping to integrate different parts of Client's business network and etc.

We are an innovative team:

Developing a variety of applications from the scratch helping to expand Client's business

Unbound in selection of any technical decision, technology or tool

Utilizing the best of the Scrum and ready for improvements

Our client is a software and services company based in the United States with development center in California. The company provides real-time facility management and service management solutions that improve productivity, increase transparency and provide advanced business analytics. It serves restaurants, retail, property management, hospitality, health care, home building, manufacturing, distribution, and service industries; and building owners, property managers, builders, and the service community.

We offer:

• Interesting and challenging work in a large and dynamically developing company

• Exciting projects involving the newest technologies

• Professional development opportunities

• Excellent compensation and benefits package, performance bonus program

• Modern and comfortable office facilities

Requirements

• 5+ years in software development and 2 in a Scrum Master role

• Experience as a Scrum Master within enterprise scale environments

• Experienced in scaled agile frameworks

• Subject matter expert of Scrum in addition to extensive knowledge of other Agile development approaches and practices

• Experience with TFS and Jira project management tools and implementation of best practices in Agile tools and workflows.

• Bachelor's degree required in a technical or business-related field

• A Scrum Master Certification is a plus

Skills

• Effective communicator with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be comfortable communicating with development teams, Product Owners, Product Management, and Senior Management.

• Effective facilitation and conflict resolution skills - must be able to facilitate discussion of multiple approaches and drive resolution.

• Effective influencer, able to work upward and across teams to build rapport and partner with others to solve common problems.

• High level of personal accountability, as evidenced by their commitment, resilience, ownership, and mindset toward continuous learning.

• Continual improvement - must be constantly growing ones craft, learning new tools and techniques, and sharing these within and among teams.

• Assertive - must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, and make the tough calls.

• Ability to facilitate, understand, and contribute to technical discussions.

• High motivation and drive to help the program teams excel and deliver based on program timelines.

• Understand that their role in the organization is broader than the details included in this particular job description.

• Excellent interpersonal skills - ability to work with diverse personality types.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Scrum Master for multiple teams across the program where required

• Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood and modeled in project plans and timelines

• Identify, document, and publish risks and issues related to the overall program and to define resolution paths where required.

• Resolve cross-team impediments and blocking issues.

• Collect and consolidate cross-team status for delivery to stakeholders and executive management.

• Schedule and conduct meetings and ceremonies in accordance with best practices for Agile/Scrum software development.

• Responsible for building team collaboration, commitment towards achieving sprint objectives and viewing team needs above everything else.

• Continuously work to improve team performance and productivity:

• Encourage team accountability, self-organization, and empowerment.

• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments

• Share common Agile practices.

• Promote and support the development team's automated processes.

• Facilitate Retrospectives which generate new ideas for process improvement.

• Resolve conflicts and issues that occur

• Maintain relevant metrics that guide the development team to more efficient processes in their work and in satisfying their Product Owner and stakeholders

• Support the Product Owner and provide education where needed