Position: Senior Scrum Master / Technical Project Manager
Company: Argument staffing agency
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Job Summary
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 (client’s org structure). 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.

Responsibilities & Duties 

To be a Servant Leader with high emotional intelligence
Coach and develop Scrum based Squad(s) to be self-organized, and helping to remove their impediments
To be a Change Agent with passion for working with people and Squads to help them improve and deliver their best work
Help the Squad to keep focus 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
Work with Squad(s) to embed and reinforce Agile practices and behaviors. 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. Model behaviors to support the organization’s Agile transformation. Actively create and maintain an atmosphere and culture within Squad(s) based on the Agile leadership behaviors
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.
 
Qualifications & Skills
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, understand the wider context of their day-to-day engineering work
A continuous improvement mind-set and dedication to uncovering better ways of working
Ability to influence behavior without having formal organizational hierarchy
Excellent communication and people-interaction skills
Excellent English (written and spoken) – upper intermediate or better.

Since we have multiple positions open successful candidate must have experience in one of the following areas:
 
1) The Application Services Product Area
Provide managed application hosting capabilities on adopted Cloud platforms covering all areas of architecture, engineering and day 2 operations.
Managed Gateway services (e.g. Web Application Firewalls or API Gateways) to allow internal/external customers to access client’s applications.
Offer Scalable messaging services to support asynchronous transfer of data and state between application components.
 
2) The Database Services Product Area
DBaaS in Private Cloud: Postgres, MSSQL Server, Oracle
Managed database services in Public Cloud platforms
Consultancy services for database optimizations
Database Services Integration and Management Framework
Application platform for automated database assessment and migrations
Automated Oracle-To-Postgres assessment and migration assistant
License/Vendor management
On-Premises: Drive the migrations and infrastructure decommissioning of Oracle (by end of 2021) and MSSQL
 
3) The Network Services Product Area
Office LAN & WiFi (including Smartbuilding)
Mobile inhouse coverage
Internet breakouts & Proxy management
Remote VPN access
Firewall services (DMZ, Datacenters, logistics)
(SD)WAN services (including local Internet firewalls)
Cloud connectivity (MPLS, VPN, express routes, Megaport)
Monitoring, reporting and capacity management (Orion, Steel central)
Datacenter connectivity
WAN Optimization
Secure Access (Cisco ISE, dot1x)
DDI Services (internal & external DNS, DHCP, IPAM)
Network Load Balancing
API Management & Automation
Office projects (delivery of network & infrastructure for CRES)
Global Level 1.5 support for customers and vendor coordination
 
4) The DevSecOps Enablement Product Area
Providing a highly integrated self-service CI/CD platform (Bamboo, Azure DevOps), set of self-service tools and solutions (Artifactory, Aqua, Nexus IQ, Sonar) that enables delivery teams across entire organization to build and deploy digital solutions to all target platforms (Azure, AliCloud, AWS, etc) with the required agility and efficiency.
Ensuring the availability, performance, security and cost efficiency of these platforms and services in close collaboration with our customers.
Being responsible for the ecosystem of development tools and platforms used for local development and collaboration (JIRA, Confluence) with particular focus on improving the developer experience in all areas
Support delivery teams with their DevSecOps transformation
Act as knowledge hub and bridge between delivery teams & DevSecOps Product Area
 
What We Offer

Attractive compensation, paid vacation, sick days, national holidays and trainings
Ability to visit international client sites, closely collaborate with engineering teams of our clients – large corporate enterprises leading in their sectors
Stimulating, dynamic and growing team
New, modern, spacious office located in the City Center.