Education and Experience
- BS in Computer Science or other technical discipline
- Minimum first level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I); certification as a CPO and in scaled Agile methods strongly preferred
- Experience serving in the Scrum Master role for at least three years for a software product development company working intimately with the engineering teams and seeking to constantly improve Scrum practices
- Skills and practices in servant leadership, facilitation, self-awareness, situational-awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment, and full transparency
- Application of numerous patterns and techniques for practical implementation of Scrum and Scrumban for full life-cycle product development and situational problem solving, including backlog management, Agile metrics and analysis, ceremonies, software estimation, program planning, release planning, defect and test management
- Proven success implementing Scrum and Scrumban with TDD, ATDD, continuous integration, test automation and DevOps
- Proven success implementing scaled Agile methods including either Scrum-of-Scrums, LeSS or SAFe
- Expert in Agile project and program management using TargetProcess, VersionOne, Rally or Jira, with demonstrated experience managing product portfolio requirements, road maps, initiatives, themes, releases and sprints across multiple product development teams
- Strongly prefer a candidate who has scaled with a business’ fast-paced growth and has experience working with off-shore teams
- Prior experience as a software engineer, QA tester, development team lead, development manager or QA manager
- Extensive work in a web-based, enterprise software product development company is a must, preferably with open source technologies and the LAMP stack in a multi-tenant SaaS environment utilizing Python
- Outstanding people, communication, coaching and mentoring skills