Senior Scrum Master

Cake – a professional headhunting firm in Asia, is supporting an international technology company to hire talented Senior Scrum Master.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum by helping everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, principles, and values.
• Ensure that the Scrum process works well and properly.
• Coach the team on how to use Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
• Work closely with the developers and Product Owner to ensure an Agile culture is established in your team.
• Coach the scrum team in self-organization.
• Identify gaps in the Agile process or skills to improve on, to make the team work better.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Owner to manage the product backlog.
• Facilitate scrum events and other meetings as needed, e.g. product backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective.
• Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments.
• Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible.
• Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged.
• Help build a productive environment where team members 'own' the product and enjoy working on it.
• Helping the Scrum team achieve the Sprint Goal for every sprint.
• Helping the Scrum team deliver the Increment with the Definition of Done
• Motivate/ encourage the scrum team to improve continuously.
• Pay attention to the motivation of team members every day and improve their motivation if there are any low-motivated members.
• Work with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of applying Scrum in the Organization.

• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts.
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English skills
• Working technical knowledge of the software development process – design, development, test, and deployment
• Strong communication, collaboration, leadership, conflict resolution and time management skills
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team
• Analytical skills to be able to solve problems and remove impediments
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building