Scrum Master

The Role 

• Function as team leader responsible for understanding the big development picture and ensuring that the team is following the WTW planning and Scrum process.
• Facilitate and lead all scrum meetings (Planning, daily scrum, and refinement). Shielding the team from interruptions.  
• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and guidelines.
• Responsible for leading teams in Quarterly planning.
• Helps resolves team impediments.  
• Responsible for leading a team in determining milestone timelines. 
• Responsible for negotiating and communicating timelines, status, and risks to leadership.
• Report on team status weekly.
• Foster strong and cohesive teams. Foster trust and collaboration across all team members to work as one unit. Assist teams resolving destructive conflict.
• Naturally able to share lessons learned and best practices with others, build relationships with stakeholders and broker relationships at all levels.
• Work with management and teams to strengthen our agile culture as well as work with teams and individuals to inspire the goals of self-determination, entrepreneurship, and customer-centered thinking.
• Assist teams and leaders in executing agile practices in a way that leads to continuous improvement.

The Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master focused on software development.
• Agile Methodology experience. 
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices as well as other methodologies that will allow you to coach the team on effective techniques.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of iterative development as well as backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition.
• Proven leadership experience in achieving successful project outcomes.
• History of delivering strong results in large scale/complex software development projects.
• Experience working with distributed software development products and teams.
• Demonstrated Ability to lead cross functional teamwork in and across teams and organizations.
• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal communication and negotiation skills. 
• Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals, including project metrics and dashboards.
• Direct management of projects and their outcomes, rather than passively collecting and reporting metrics.
• Strong ability to identify risks, issues, and dependencies early.
• Quickly facilitates mitigation plans, alternative approaches, and communication of risks.
• Fully committed to transparency in all situations.
• Highly organized with excellent multi-tasking skills. 
• Customer service orientation.
• Analytical thinker with creative problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Preference for Agile certifications (Scrum Master or Product Owner).
• Self-starter attitude and ability to build a strong rapport and trust with resources in several functional areas.
• Adeptness at learning modern technology and tools.
• BS/BA degree or relevant experience. 
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence is a plus.
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework is a plus.

WTW is an Equal Opportunity Employer