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One of Portland's hottest Fortune 100 companies is looking for their next Program Manager/Scrum Master! This is a great opportunity to work for an exciting brand in a fast-paced, engaging environment and project. If the qualities called for below align with your skills and experience, we want to hear from you. Don't let this amazing opportunity pass you by! (PDX Local Candidates, Hybrid work schedule) (W2 Only!) As a Scrum Master, you will lead self-organizing, self-managing teams in applying and optimizing Agile practices to maximize team performance and effectiveness. In this role, you will:
- Support the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its daily and iteration objectives and help teams focus on delivery of high quality stories on a predictable, sustainable cadence
- Facilitate the teams assessing and planning for risk
- Ensure agreed upon Agile methodology principles and practices are understood and enacted.
- Coach Agile team in self-organization and cross-functionality and promote Agile mindset
- Provide visibility to impediments to the Agile Team's progress that the team cannot remove themselves
- Facilitate the team's relationship with outside stakeholders
- Facilitate conversations between Product Owner and team in regard to rebalancing and reprioritizing work within a sprint
- Ensure Product Owner has backlog prioritized for each iteration
- Protect the team from interruptions and distractions to clear a path for throughput
- Facilitate ceremonies/team meetings and ensure time-boxed events stay within their allotted time
- Continuously learn new approaches to facilitation, Agile best practices and how to improve team dynamics
- Foster a positive environment for the Agile team to continually improve and learn
- Drive cross Capability coordination and scheduling with other Scrum Masters
- Coordinate with other Scrum Masters, the System Team, and Shared Resources during ART/Cross-train Quarterly Planning and Release Planning Meetings to remove issues and raise risks, as appropriate
- Track and utilize agreed upon metrics to drive meaningful conversations and improvement opportunities
- Deep understanding of Agile development frameworks, specifically Scrum, Kanban and Large-Scale Scrum
- Demonstrated understanding of technology systems and the Technology ecosystem
- Demonstrated ability to understand business needs
- Proven ability to pull together individuals of varying technical and business abilities with different goals and facilitate productive discussion and action
- Strong written and verbal communication, conflict resolution, and servant leadership skills
- Demonstrated understanding and reinforcement of the value of Agile mindset and the required iteration events
- Excellent facilitation skills and techniques
- Bachelors' degree in Business, Psychology, Anthropology, or Organizational Development with 2 years' additional relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree
- 3-5 years hands-on Scrum Master/Coach experience in advanced, large-scale Agile setting
- Certified Scrum Master and other Scrum certification desired
- Experience working with Jira or similar tool, building summary views, using agile planning boards, setting up dashboards preferred
- Familiarity or experience with other agile methodologies such as LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming preferred