Junior Scrum Master

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Junior Scrum Master

Job ID 110996

Posted 24-Apr-2023

Service line GWS Segment

Role type Full-time

Areas of Interest Digital & Technology/Information Technology

Location(s) Richardson - Texas - United States of America

Job summary

The Scrum Master is responsible for promoting and enabling value delivery for one or more scrum teams. The Scrum Master coaches cross-functional partners (Product, Engineering, Design, etc.) on agile principles and scrum practices as well as enables teamwork in support of timely delivery of high value product features. The Scrum Master taps into their expertise in Lead/Agile development and delivery standard methodology to empower agile teams to optimize the velocity of execution through continuous improvement. Individuals in this role are outcome-focused and are proactive, self-starters who can drive execution. Scope of responsibility. Responsible for handling multiple products and ensures the agile team(s) adheres to Lean/Agile gold standards, and guidelines. Acts as a facilitator, assisting team enhanced performance and increase efficiencies by removing impediments, minimizing distractions, increasing risks and issues, and ensuring proper agile lifecycle management (ALM) tools are in place (Jira, Confluence, others as needed).

Essential duties and responsibilities

  • Guides a team in optimally employing Scrum practices and principles to build value and increase customer and partner satisfaction. Supports the Product Owner on refining and handling the product backlog.
  • Promotes improved engineering and quality assurance practices. Facilitates Scrum events and other meetings as vital.
  • These include, but are not limited to: Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Product Backlog refinement, and release planning. Identifies and removes impediments and prevents distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal(s). Ensures that cross-functional partners and assigned team(s) understand how they can push through their own impediments.
  • Assesses the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coaches the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable. Tracks metrics that are meaningful to the team to deliver to the marketplace and sustainably improve. Maintains information radiators and team tools, which includes sprint board, release burnup charts, progress dashboards, etc.
  • Participates and engages in Agile Community of Practice (i.e. attends events to gain and exchange information, improves and practices on skills, and actively works to advance domain knowledge).
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory responsibilities

No formal supervisory responsibilities in this position.

Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree (BA/BS) or equivalent from four-year college or university in Communications, Operations, Business, Technology or related degree, plus a minimum of 2+ years related work experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Familiarity with Lean/Agile practices and frameworks, and DevOps.

Certificates and/or Licenses

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Scrum Alliance or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certifications highly preferred.

Communication skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong organizational and analytical skills. Ability to provide efficient, timely, reliable and courteous service to customers. Ability to effectively present information.

Reasoning ability

Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret complex documents. Ability to solve problems involving several options in situations. Requires advanced analytical and quantitative skills.

Other Skills and/or Abilities

Advanced skills in Microsoft Office suite applications. Excellent project management and organizational skills to assist in managing multiple partners and operational tasks. Must be a self-starter, highly motivated, able to shift directions quickly when priorities change.

Comfortable in approaching and establishing relationships with cross-functional partners and collaborators.

Scope of responsibility

Decisions made with understanding of procedures and company policies to achieve set results and time limits. Responsible for setting own project deadlines. Errors in judgment may cause short-term impact to co-workers and supervisor.

CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law. We also provide reasonable accommodations, as needed, throughout the job application process. If you have a disability that inhibits your ability to apply for a position through our online application process, you may contact us via email at or via telephone at +1 (U.S.) and +1 (Canada).

NOTE: Some, but not all, of our positions may have an additional requirement to comply with COVID-19 health and safety protocols, including COVID-19 vaccination proof and/or rigorous testing. If you have questions about the requirement(s) for this position, please inform your Recruiter.

CBRE GWS

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a meaningful contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry's most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.

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  • ID: #50000620
  • State: Texas Richardson 75080 Richardson USA
  • City: Richardson
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-05-26
  • Deadline: 2023-07-24
  • Category: Et cetera