Job Description
Job Description: Scrum Master / IT Project Manager
The Scrum Master is responsible for maximizing value delivery to the customer by guiding Agile teams through Scrum best practices and fostering a collaborative environment. This role blends traditional project management responsibilities—such as scope, budget, and risk management—with hands-on Agile facilitation. The Scrum Master also supports product owners and development teams by documenting requirements, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, and participating in testing activities.
Primary Responsibilities
- Serve as a servant-leader to the team and product owner in translating requirements into functional software.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Track progress and support the team in meeting sprint commitments; identify issues early and collaborate on corrective actions.
- Manage and report on scope, schedule, resource allocation, and project financials.
- Extract and document business requirements; author user stories and clearly define acceptance criteria.
- Ensure adherence to Agile processes and foster team alignment with best practices.
- Champion product quality by clarifying expectations and coordinating work related to defect resolution, refactoring, and reducing technical debt.
- Balance stakeholder interests, mediating between the product owner and development team when necessary.
- Identify and remove impediments to ensure focus on high-value engineering tasks.
- Lead conflict resolution and proactively eliminate collaboration barriers.
- Minimize external distractions to protect team productivity.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives by facilitating retrospectives and promoting iterative enhancements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) required.
- Strong interpersonal and conflict-resolution skills; comfortable facilitating collaboration among cross-functional teams.
- Solid understanding of Agile estimation and scoping practices.
- Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
Experience Requirements
- Proven experience as both Scrum Master and IT Project Manager in network-related initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple significant projects concurrently.
- Prior experience in network services or infrastructure project delivery.
- Hands-on experience with Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tools and Agile frameworks.
Benefits (employee contribution):
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance
- Retirement plan
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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