Scrum Master

**Description**

It is an incredibly exciting time to join the Guardian team as a Scrum Master / Agile Practitioner as you will be on the forefront of not only our journey to scale agile, but also be part of the largest technology enabled transformation in our history. This means you will have the rare opportunity to help advance agile thinking in an organization eager for change, while making a meaningful impact on a high value opportunity.

As part of these efforts, the Scrum Master is responsible for guiding, coaching, and supporting an Agile product team in the delivery and realization of business value across the program portfolio.

Success will be achieved by leveraging your Agile experience, leadership and coaching skills, bringing a positive attitude as well as the understanding for building cross-functional relationships to deliver process and technology solutions within a complex global environment.

**What You Will Do In Your Role**:

- Partner with the Product Owner to align team with product vision, sprint goals and priorities
- Facilitates the scrum process for project teams (to include supporting the development and management of the product backlog, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint execution and all other Scrum events),
- Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent work completion
- Mentor and coach team members in Agile values and principles
- Build team cohesion and foster open and honest team communication
- Collect, report, and refine agile metrics to quantify and communicate team performance
- Ensure that teams are effectively executing against the highest value priorities
- Providing "go to" leadership, transparency, and visibility

**The Experience You Will Bring**:
**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) from a regionally accredited four-year college or university in Business, Computer Science, closely related field, or equivalent in work experience.
- Proven experience in Agile project management.
- Experience in working with internal and external customers (Product Owners), strong stakeholder management.
- Demonstrates a proactive approach, getting things done, accountability & ownership, prioritizes own workload.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

**What Will Put You Ahead**:

- Experience in Data Management and associated concepts
- Experience working with system integrator partners
- Experience with Agile ERP implementations
- Experience with ADO (preferred), Jira, or similar
- Proven experience developing an agile mindset in yourself and others.
- Team player able to have a positive impact that can work with individuals at all levels in an organization.
- The ability to build trust and openness in interactions within and outside the team.
- Ability to motivate others to achieve goals and generate confidence whilst respecting and supporting colleagues and team members to reach their full potential.
- In-depth knowledge of agile estimation and planning techniques.

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