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Job Description

As a Scrum Master, you'll act as a facilitator and advocate of the Agile methods of collaboration, in alignment with a product-centric organization. This role coordinates supports and assists all aspects of a product team. You’ll collaborate closely with and be the single point of contact to the product owner, coordinate the development team and align with release management to achieve customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

1. Providing rigors for all Agile ceremonies, including quality of story production and effective retrospectives while having a constant focus on improving the team.
2. Ensure there is full comprehension by the technical teams of all product stories during scoping and ideation phases.
3. Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on consistently improving and problem-solving.
4. Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments.
5. Use expert agile knowledge to guide teams to utilize tools and practices for software development.
6. Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity.
7. Support the product owner and provide education where needed.
8. Act as a trusted representative for the team in committees, coordinate with IT colleagues from other teams, and be the SPOC for the product owner and release manager or other functions of the business.
9. Deliver ongoing training for the team, product owners, developers, and testers to consolidate and support the future development of agile methods in the organization.

Skills and Qualifications

Required

1. Minimum 2 years of Scrum Master experience leading small-mid-sized agile teams.
2. Minimum 2 years of IT/SW delivery experience working in an agile environment.
3. Demonstrable experience to apply Scrum principles, practices, and theory of Scrum, Kanban, Agile Development, and Integration.
4. Strong analytical skills to grasp complexities and identify relationships between problems, risks, issues, and solutions; ability to work with a team to reach a consensus.
5. Solid Team and Organizational coaching experience to realize benefits arising from Agile Principles, self-management, empowerment, incremental deliveries, and inter-team cooperation.
6. Ability to adapt to a changing environment.
7. Proven ability to continually build job knowledge & skills.
8. English language proficiency.

Preferred

1. Healthcare and Life Sciences industry experience desired.
2. Industry-recognized Agile and/or DevOps Qualifications.
3. Preferred Technical Degree (or equivalent experience).

Locations

MEX - Santa Fe

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time