Lead Scrum Master
Grapevine, TX

Job Description

The Job:

The Lead Scrum Master has primary responsibility of facilitating the learning and growth of one or more Agile teams in developing a lean-Agile mindset, improving practices and guiding them to more predictable delivery. The Lead Scrum Master plays a role in facilitating Agile ceremonies and planning of releases, removing impediments, providing guidance, and supporting up to 4 Agile teams. The lead will also help mentor team Scrum Master's.

Your role:

Backlog Management Practices

* Works with Product Owners and team members to learn and practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices


* Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement


* Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams


* Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination

Agile Ceremony Facilitation


* Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams


* Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management


* Teaches new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process


* Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices


* Mentors Product Owners and team members in agile practices and continuous improvement

Delivery Team Support


* Removes impediments to the team's ability to perform


* Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions


* Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution


* Facilitates team development, mediates conflicts protecting the team and encourages healthy team dynamics.


* Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization


* Leverages coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems

Advice and Guidance


* Introduces and encourages team to explore healthy Agile (XP) development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery


* Teaches and encourages a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability


* Helps the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements


* Promotes transparency through healthy communications and data integrity

Ability to:


* Continuously seek to improve solution development processes and/or develops new approaches to achieving improvement consistent across the organization.


* Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific specialisms, and provides expert advice regarding their application.
* Supervise specialist consultancy.


* Enable stakeholder engagement/ communications plans, including, for example; handling of complaints; problems and issues; managing resolutions; corrective actions and lessons learned; collection and dissemination of relevant information.
* Use feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.
* Help develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.


* Plan the delivery of leaning activities, based on learning objectives.
* Customize formal and informal learning activities, incorporating relevant scenarios and case studies.
* Design appropriate environments, and deliver learning activities to specialist audiences.
* Advice/coach others in learning delivery techniques and options.



What We Look For:

* Bachelor's degree or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education


* Working experience related industry


* At least 7-10 years working experience as a Senior Scrum Master


* Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), or Kanban


* Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe


* Scrum Master certification or equivalent certified professional (Desired for lower level - required for higher)