Job Title: Technical Scrum Master
Contract Duration: Ongoing
Location: St. Paul, MN
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Summary
Seeking a motivated and experienced Scrum Master to lead Agile teams in delivering high-quality software for medical products that advance clinical excellence. As a member of the software development team you will help take these products to the next level by optimizing cost, improving quality and increasing access.
Responsibilities
- Servant leader who would facilitate scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, and ensure adherence to Agile principles and Scrum practices.
- Work closely with Product Owners, Developers, and other stakeholders to foster a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
- Provide technical leadership to an Agile team of 6 to 8 Software Engineers
- Translate requirements / vision into prioritized list of user stories and deliver to required timelines and quality standards with continuous backlog refinement
- Coordinate with other Scrum Masters and Agile teams to ensure alignment and technology reuse
- Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining & support activities
- Track and report key Agile metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown charts)
- Coach, mentor and lead the team
- Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables
- Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products
- Communicate effectively both within immediate team and across the program and business leadership team
- Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy and results
- Engage subject matter experts in successful transfer of complex domain knowledge
- Have familiarity with all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle and methodologies
- Leveraging DFR in Agile software development methodologies to drive reliability and predictability throughout the product development life cycle
Qualifications/Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
- 4+ years C++ or C#.net in Microsoft Windows development
- 4+ years of Agile software development
- Object Oriented Design Experience
Desired Characteristics
Technology/Process
- Master’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science
- Certified Scrum Master
- Global team experience
- Experience in software development in the medical field
- Software development tool experience such as Perforce, Jira, Jenkins
- Understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
Leadership
- Ability to take ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members
- Ensure understanding of issues and present clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results
- Identify misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy. Make suggestions to course correct
- Continuously measure deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balance different competing objectives
Personal Attributes
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Effective facilitation, coaching, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit
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