We are seeking an exceptionally talented Scrum Master who will provide effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching skills supporting the development of our solutions.

The ideal candidate has a combination of technical skills and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment that is team centric and highly collaborative. We are looking for candidates who have proven track records of being solution and delivery focused, and who can lead strategic, cross-functional, business facing and technical initiatives. The candidate will be an experienced Agile practitioner, have excellent logic and problem-solving skills and a visible drive to make a difference. The candidate will be responsible for hands-on execution of the project roadmap within the organization as it pertains to the team(s) the candidate supports.

In Short

Hands-on Scrum Master for an agile team and/or cross-functional project team leadership for business-critical products and solutions
Understands big picture of work coming to the team; Awareness of applications & business process the team supports & its purpose. Improve, maintain and develop (where appropriate) Agile best practices, dashboards and tools; ensure consistency where appropriate
Develop and communicate Agile dashboards and metrics pertaining to sprint goals, capacity, velocity, quality and backlog health
Foster a continuous improvement mindset in the team by capturing improvement ideas and conducting experiments.
Creates data driven forward looking plans to manage flow thru team, with a view of capacity by skillset to inform decision making.
Maintain and report on regularly the flow of work into and out of the team ensuring dependencies are managed
Provide transparent visibility to risks / issues to achieving commitments, to enable collaborative problem solving with peers, other teams, business stakeholders, tech leads, project managers, project teams and release managers
Instill a sense of urgency reflecting the goals for the current sprint, upcoming release, and project vision
Ensure sprint-based meetings are effectively facilitated, the outcomes are achieved, and their cadence is maintained
Model servant leadership in a highly collaborative and fast paced environment

Requirements

Ideally located in Columbus OH region
Must have 5+ years IT experience in a software development environment.
Must have 2+ years of Agile / Scrum Master experience following the guidance contained in The Scrum Guide.
Must possess a BA/BS in a related field or equivalent experience.
Must have experience leading an agile team to achieve sprint goals, project goals, and sprint commitments
Must have exceptional written and verbal communication and time management skills.
Must have experience with JIRA and Confluence
Must be self-motivated with a proven ability to identify priorities and mobilize initiatives to achieve desired results with minimal supervision.
Must be effective and efficient in identifying and proposing creative, innovative solutions to complex, time-critical challenges.
Must possess excellent situational awareness and an ability to remain calm under pressure and lead teams through ambiguous situations and rapid change