Position: Senior SCRUM Master
Company: Svitla Systems
Category: Other
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior Scrum Master for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Ukraine. Our client is a company that is digitizing biomarker analysis intending to advance the science of precision health. The company’s ultra-sensitive detection solution has the potential to change how healthcare is provided today by giving researchers the ability to closely examine the role of biomarkers in the continuum of health to disease. The technology is designed to enable much earlier disease detection, better prognosis, and precise treatment methods to improve the quality of life and longevity of the population for generations to come. The technology is currently being used for research applications in several therapeutic areas, including oncology, neurology, cardiology, inflammation, and infectious disease.

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years of experience in working as a Scrum Master with diverse stakeholders and distributed teams in a software company.
- 3+ years of experience in working on SAFe principles.
- Scrum Master Certification (SCM).
- A good grasp of Jira and Confluence (or equivalents) for managing SAFe projects and developing metrics/dashboards.
- Knowledge of DevOps: continuous integration, continuous build, continuous delivery tools, and techniques.
- Excellent communication skills including verbal, written, whiteboarding, and presentation.
- Ability to think strategically to execute both short and long-term technology planning.
- Proven success in using SAFe practices to deliver incremental software in defined iterations.
- Proven success acting as a change agent to lead and support organizational changes.

**Nice to have:**

- Expertise in cloud infrastructure, software/firmware engineering, and testing.

**Responsibilities:**

- Manage SAFe meetings (grooming, iteration planning, daily scrum, retrospective, and demos).
- Work directly with the product owner and development team lead to coordinate agile team members and assign individual responsibilities.
- Organize and coach a newly formed and rapidly growing team to higher levels of maturity.
- Collaborate with product owners and developers to create user stories, acceptance criteria, and priorities regularly and to groom and maintain product backlogs.
- Collaborate with product owners and developers to estimate the story points, and measure the team capacity.
- Help identify and raise dependencies among teams.
- Track daily sprint progress and maintain schedules.
- Collaborate with program leadership to create and maintain the software release schedules and cadence.
- Collaborate with product owners and software development leadership to develop success metrics and create dashboards/reports to share with stakeholders to gain operational efficiency.
- Facilitate healthy debates, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
- Assist with internal communication and external communication (with vendors and strategic partners), improving transparency, visibility, and pro-actively sharing information.
- Support and educate team members on SAFe practices and rituals.
- Empower the team to be self-organized.