Senior Scrum Master
Optomi, in partnership with a leader in automotive industry is seeking a Senior Scrum Master for their Plano, TX location. The right candidate will have 5-7 years of Scrum experience! This role will focus on facilitating Agile practices and ensuring the team delivers business value effectively. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Scrum@Scale and SAFe principles, along with a proven ability to coach and mentor senior professionals.
MUST HAVE REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience with Scrum@Scale framework OR another scaling framework (LeSS, SAFe, Nexus, Spotify Model)
- Experience with Jira, Confluence.
- Experience with Miro or Lucidspark.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Proactive identification and prioritization of team process improvements.
- Implement working tracking systems for product development (using JIRA or other tools).
- Support teams and product owners build roadmaps and plan for product delivery.
- Design and implement effective meeting and planning facilitation events.
- Effective communication skills and experience working with development team members and product owners. Experience with conflict resolution.
- Facilitate teams with planning work that feeds into larger level product and program deliverables.
- Improve the effectiveness and maturity of development teams, and improving customer outcomes from our product development activities.
- Facilitate PI planning sessions and ensure alignment with program goals.
- Coach the Scrum team and Product Owner in Agile practices and principles.
- Manage team dynamics, fostering collaboration and open communication.
- Guide the team in delivering business value while avoiding overcommitment.
- Collaborate with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches to align efforts across teams.
- Utilize Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) and remote facilitation tools (Lucid Spark, Miro) to enhance team productivity.
What You Bring
- Proven professional experience as a Scrum Master role, assisting teams with process and product improvements. Higher level degree preferred.
- Experience with Agile and program tracking tools (JIRA, Version One, Rally).
- Experience working in a software development environment, and familiar with full Software Development Lifecycle.
Added Bonus If You Have
- Advanced experience as a Scrum Master.
- Strong communication skills and experience working across multiple levels of an organization to resolve issues.
- Extensive JIRA usage and configuration experience.
- Advanced knowledge of the full software development life cycle, product development, and release processes.
- Experience mentoring other Scrum Masters, development team members, and Product Owners.
- Proven ability to lead a team, create a vision, and make progress towards that vision by achieving measurable objectives.
- Experience leading and facilitating scaled agile software development activities.
- Professional Scrum Master II, Professional Scrum Product Owner II, or equivalent certifications.
