Senior Scrum Master
The Senior Scrum Master leads the technical delivery of high quality software solutions across a number of scrum teams within a value stream to support the growth objectives for Elavon's European Payments business.
Acts as a leader as part of an Agile team to deliver high value software solutions that contribute to the success of our technology initiatives in an agile environment.
Provides overall guidance for team to adhere to Agile principles and practices. Arranges, facilitates and schedules meetings, demos and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative process is in use. This includes sprint team backlog grooming, estimating and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning daily standups, and retrospectives.
Works with stakeholders and team members to continuously improve. Drives quicker delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity.
Facilitates team transparency by escalating impediments and shares progress by the team to the appropriate channels. Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.
Plans and coordinates testing environment deployments and application / system integration testing. Guides team in self-organization; encourages and motivates team to focus on iteration goals.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
Five or more years of experience in Agile technology delivery
Five or more years of experience in Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) teams
Five or more years of experience as a Scrum Master
Comprehensive knowledge of Agile principles and practices and capacity to understand specific needs or requirements to apply skills/knowledge
Experience in business analysis, product/project management, or product development
Ability to execute highly complex or specialized projects
Expertise in iterative and incremental development on an aggressive schedule
Adept experience in leading and influencing teams and key stakeholders
Excellent presentation skills
Ability to work entirely self-directed and can solve business problems from inception to implementation without explicit direction
Creative, flexible, and willing to continuously change, evolve, and improve software development processes
Demonstrated enterprise-level collaboration and system architecture understanding
Strong understanding of Information Management
Strong communication, collaboration, leadership, conflict resolution, budgeting and time management skills
CSM (Certified Scrum Master) certification a plus
We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.
