Senior Scrum Master (60-80%)

Senior Scrum Master (60-80%)

Zurich/ Adliswil - Switzerland

Contract Role - 12 months - Remote Work initially due to COVID

Our client, a well known Swiss company, is currently looking for an experienced Senior Scrum Master, to work in one of their projects based in Zurich - Switzerland.

Role:

This position over 60-80% is within the IaaS domain and therefore with focus on the following topics.

• Provisioning of high quality infrastructure services ensuring smooth operation of critical platforms and business solutions. The team specializes in infrastructure that maximizes performance, security, governance and availability.
• Managed infrastructure services (incl. Windows and Linux servers and configuration mgmt.)
• Serve our Client's customers by managing our identity and access management infrastructure (AAD)
• Manage Client's Datacentres to ensure business continuity for on-premise infrastructure
• As experienced Scrum Master, you will work as a credible Servant Leader for the Product Owner, Product Area Lead, Chapter Leads and the Squad Members.
• You will support the work of the Squad(s) by maintaining the backlog and facilitating Scrum ceremonies like stand ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• You will ensure team performance is monitored through the Squad's dashboard and help identify continuous improvement opportunities to help the team work better and smarter.
• As a catalyst, you drive improvements and changes to positively challenge the norm where the issues are outside of a squads' control.
• You support process improvements within a Product Area or on complex issues.
• Coach and develop Scrum based Squad(s) to be self-organized, and helping to remove their impediments
• Help the squad to keep focus. E.g. by acting as a buffer between external distractions and the squad
• Support a Product Owner setting goals, scope for the Squad(s) and supporting product backlog management
• Contribute to the Product Area with proficient coaching & mentoring skills
• Mediate through conflicts, help the squad to make decisions, and encourage leadership in others
• Fosters self-organization, collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Demonstrate proficient knowledge about Agile frameworks and its principles
• Support and promote a feedback culture based on the Scrum values (commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect)
• Support a culture of continuous improvement of the squad's processes and productivity
• Exchange ideas and issues with other Scrum Masters, nurturing internal Agile community and Chapter/Community of Practice

You will be expected to:

• Work with Squad(s) to embed and reinforce Agile practices and behaviours
• Lead and facilitate various Scrum ceremonies, such as sprint closing and planning, stand ups, retrospectives
• Provide constructive feedback to team members to increase Agile maturity
• Support the Product Owner maintain and refine the product backlog
• Review and manage backlog items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate
• Ensure work is appropriately balanced across the team and that all work is captured within the backlog
• Enable the organization's Agile way of working o Model behaviours to support the organization's Agile transformation
• Actively create and maintain an atmosphere and culture within Squad(s) based on the Agile leadership behaviours
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and best practices to progress the work of the Squad(s)
• Engage with Chapter Leads to help identify and deliver against training needs to support Agile practices
• Engage with individual Squad members to identify opportunities to improve

Skills and Experience required:

• More than 5 years experience working with Agile teams and understanding of Agile practices
• Experience with Scrum (and Kanban) methodologies, tools and techniques
• Capability to understand and speak the Engineer's language and understand the wider context of their day-to-day engineering work
• Experience with Enterprise IT tools and processes, or similar in other international Enterprise IT organizations
• A continuous improvement mind-set and dedication to uncovering better ways of working
• Ability to influence behavior without having formal organizational hierarchy
• Excellent communications and people-interaction skills
• Fluent in English

Must have:

Scrum & Kanban (Certification), +5 years in Agile Teams & Practices, Enterprise IT Tools & Processes