Scrum Master

Scrum Master

Summary:

As a Scrum Master, you will coach software development teams to ensure that teams follow Agile practices and scrum framework values. You will work to increase team efficiency and provide motivation and guidance for process improvement. In this role, you will have the opportunity to ensure the success of highly organized teams that continually deliver high-value results to the organization.

Miami University offers an engaging work environment at a premier higher education institution with an exceptional benefits package plus many supporting resources to help employees balance their professional and personal lives.

By exploration, partnership, growth, and understanding, we are committed to providing intuitive, efficient, solutions that are forward-thinking, flexible, and modern.

Search Prospectus:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17csiA5y6LiW4v5kfUISN2ffRu0dQciCL/view?ts=62a369e3

Duties:

Using the agile methodology values, principles, and practices you will guide, train, mentor, and support scrum teams resulting in continual improvement efforts and highly efficient self-organizing teams delivering on-time impactful projects to the organization. 

• Provides leadership to a team or teams and facilitates planning, team learning in the form of sprint reviews/retrospectives, and adaptation of the process to ensure quality of team/solutions 
• Advocates and teaches Agile methodology, ensuring that the team is always following the framework fostering an environment of continuous improvement/learning and driving substantial improvement at the team, portfolio and organization levels
• Guides team members in achieving maturity in Agile principles with a track record of increasing velocity as team(s) mature
• Champion the empirical approach (transparency, adaptation, inspection) for complex work by continually educating all scrum team members and stakeholders on the benefits.  
• Works closely with the stakeholders to ensure high velocity and high quality of delivery, while identifying and helping to resolve impediments that emerge throughout the software development cycle
• Champion scrum team and stakeholder collaboration as a key success factor. Work with the scrum team and stakeholders to continually grow and mature relationships in and outside of projects. 
• Serves, leads, coaches and supports multiple simultaneous Agile teams on high-complexity initiatives consisting of internal, external, and business/technical resources in delivery of IT and business products and solutions

• Organizes, facilitates and appropriately timeboxes scrum ceremonies and agile practices such as sprint planning, daily standup, backlog refinement, sprint review, and sprint retrospective alongside the stakeholders, ensuring the scrum team(s) adhere to the Agile values of courage, focus, commitment, respect and openness in delivering solutions
• Supports the stakeholders and scrum teams through maintaining data in the appropriate Agile toolset to provide transparency creating visibility to ‘what’ and ‘how’ teams are performing through valuable team metrics
• Champions strong team environments with high morale and team cohesion where the team members constructively challenge each other, have a sense of ownership, and advocate for the right long-term decision-making
• Preparing and distributing insightful project status reports to all project stakeholders to enable understanding of project timelines, current activities and any barriers to a successful project completion.

Minimum Qualifications:

Require a Bachelor's degree earned by date of hire and two (2) or more years of relevant experience OR Associate's degree earned by date of hire and four (4) or more years of relevant experience.

Formal training or certification(s) in project management techniques

Formal training or certification(s) in Scrum/Agile techniques and frameworks

This position is available to persons who are currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time and indefinite basis. (Persons authorized to work on such a basis include US citizens, lawful permanent residents (“green card” holders), asylees, refugees, and temporary residents under IRCA.

Preferred Qualifications:

The Scrum Master is part of the Solution Delivery department in IT Services. We are looking for leaders with a firm grasp of agile practices and the following qualifications.

• Two (2) or more years prior experience on a software development / integration team either as a Scrum Master or other member of the Team.
• Proven expert understanding of multiple Agile frameworks

• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams across the organization
• Ability to implement, enhance and coach Scrum/Agile principles, techniques, and frameworks
• Ability to lead engagements with stakeholders to understand, troubleshoot, negotiate and resolve reported conflicts, problems, and issues.
• Programming experience or demonstrated familiarity with the technical concepts and logic
• Proven track record for leading continuous improvement to help teams clarify goals and actions to achieve them
• Demonstrated experience in business analysis, product/project management, or product development
• Proven strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including demonstrated experience identifying, defining and quantifying problems; collecting or interpreting data, establishing facts, and providing effective solutions
• We are looking for an individual who is a servant leader who puts the needs of the employees first and helps people develop and perform as highly as

• Verbal and written communication skills; including communicating with technical and non-technical clients, and with clients and staff at all organizational levels

Benefits:

Miami is committed to a culture of health and wellness. We offer several benefits including healthcare and wellness programs with on-campus recreational and sport centers, health insurance that includes options for dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance. Tuition fee waivers for employee and family, paid sick and parental leave, paid vacation, paid holidays and state sponsored alternate and supplemental retirement plans. Plus, you can be part of the University’s academic culture with direct access to hundreds of on-campus events plus the possibility to teach one credit bearing course per semester.

Miami University recognizes that technology enables us to find new ways of providing first-class service and workplace flexibility. This position is approved for remote work on a hybrid basis. Remote work is a working arrangement that can be modified or revoked by Miami University at any time for any reason.

Diversity Statement:

Miami University is committed to creating an inclusive and effective teaching, learning, research, and working environment for all.

For more information on Miami University’s diversity initiatives, please visit the Office of Institutional Diversity & Inclusion webpage. For more information on Miami University’s mission and core values, please visit the Mission and Core Values webpage.

EO/AA Statement/Clery Act:

Miami University, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, encourages applications from minorities, women, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Miami University prohibits harassment, discrimination and retaliation on the basis of age (40 years or older), color, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic information, military status, national origin (ancestry), pregnancy, race, religion, sex/gender, status as a parent or foster parent, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status in its application and admission processes, educational programs and activities, facilities, programs or employment practices. Requests for reasonable accommodations for disabilities related to employment should be directed to ADAFacultyStaff@MiamiOH.edu or 513-529-3560.

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