Scrum Master Project Manager

Looking for Scrum Master with at least 4 to 5 years relevant experience.

Responsibilities:
 Guides team through sprint planning and execution
 Facilitates scrum tasks (Planning, Retrospective, Demo, Pre-planning, Stand-ups, Affinity sizing etc.)
 Supports Product Owner in creation, refinement, prioritization of the backlog elements and release planning.
 Participates in scrum-of-scrums and discusses internal dependencies.
 Recognizes, raises, and removes impediments proactively that prevent team from achieving sprint goals.
 Drives continuous improvement of team to ensure that teams are always exploring on how to deliver value earlier and more often with higher quality.
 Prioritizes workload and ensures appropriate sizing and standardization of user stories.
 Determines the workload for the team and proactively manages the timeline and backlog on an ongoing basis.
 Assesses the maturity of the scrum teams and helps the team mature at a pace that is sustainable and. comfortable.
 Provides agile team start-up coaching.
 Tailors process for efficiency based on empirical learnings.
 In addition to traditional activities, the Scrum Master will also spend approximately 10% - 20% of their time performing project administrative activities including, but not limited to:
 Reporting on overall delivery status to program leadership and various stakeholders
 Maintaining cost plan and financial details
 Ensuring monthly estimates of costs, schedule, scope and resource requirements are agreed and maintained.

Skills and Experience:
 Bachelor's degree and 3 - 5 years relevant IT and Scrum Master experience
 Demonstrated success in a scrum master role for 4+ years for a software development team.
 Agile Certification (CSM/PSM/SAFE Agilist) will be given a strong preference.
 Proven skill in facilitation, continuous improvement, empowerment, transparency and servant leadership
 Has relevant business and application domain knowledge in their expected area (e.g. Marketing, Sales).
 Experience with various Agile approaches  Kanban, Scrum, XP, etc.
 Experience with Jira, MS Azure or other relevant agile tools is required.
 Knowledge and experience with multiple Agile techniques, User Stories, TDD, DevOps/Continuous Integration, etc.
 Prior experience of Project Management managing all the areas of a Project including Finance will be given strong preference. Experience with Clarity or other project management suites is preferred,