Principal Monarch Scrum Master

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Job Description

The Principal, Scrum Master supports application development activities across cross-functional teams in coordination with business and technical roles, and third party providers to deliver high quality products by adopting agile values, principles and practices.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Responsible for building well-oiled delivery machine, continually feeding it User Stories, and “fine tuning the machine”
Organiser of Sprint / Increment ceremonies such as: stand-ups, estimation sessions, backlog refinement and prioritisation, showcases and retrospectives
Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Quality Analysts, Experience Design and tech team members to ensure the timely creation and refinement of user stories according to INVEST principles
Ensure the teams are able to respond effectively to changing requirements, bringing an understanding of how scope changes affect the size and complexity of teams’ backlogs and delivery timescales
Responsible for ensuring the estimation of User Stories in current and next Sprint in alignment with the agreed Definition of Ready
Experience in estimation techniques, for example the use of Story Points, T-Shirt sizes, Cycle Time to establish repeatable allows for release/project planning and reporting (see below)
Ensures that the correct User Stories are in the agreed Sprint (on a physical Story Wall and/or via the designated EBRD Agile enterprise toolsets, based on priorities
Responsible for guiding the team to remove blockers through empowerment and accountability. Actively work to remove blockers and mitigate their impact on team productivity and impact on delivery
Responsible for monitoring team health, velocity, capacity and availability of team members
Ensures that the team is focused on the highest priorities by working closely with the Software Delivery Manager and Product Owner
Ensures that teams members maintain backlogs and User Story statuses up to date in physical and/or electronically
Ensures a trusting and safe environment is developed where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and problem solving
Coaches project team members (including Product Owner) to understand Agile values, principles, practices, self-organisation, cross-functionality and project delivery
Works collaboratively with stakeholders and Product Team members to facilitate and positively influence solution development and sustainable operations
Ensures that key dependencies are understood and managed
Does whatever is necessary to help the teams and programmes deliver successful outcomes in line with constraints and challenges set.
Organises recruitment of contract and third party resource where necessary

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications:
Essential:

Scrum Master experience running multiple software development teams.
Development and software engineering knowledge and experience will be an advantage.
Demonstrable evidence of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown/Burn Up techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling issues/bugs)
Experience of Agile Enterprise toolsets, i.e. AzureDevOps, JIRA, Confluence.
Experience of being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed)
Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
Knowledge of other agile delivery approaches, such as XP, Kanban, LeSS, SAFe, etc.
Knowledge and experience with widely successful Agile and Lean techniques: User Stories and story maps, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair programming, Agile Testing, Innovation Games, etc.
Experience of delivering software in a formal regime using source control management and controlled gates with relevant artefacts to support design, quality and support.
Experience of working in a mid-sized corporate environment, successfully aligning solutions appropriately with wider roadmaps, architecture and other initiatives
Previous experience as a collaborative leader
Excellent communication and mentoring skills

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