Position: Scrum Master (responsible & positive)
Company: Intellias
Experience required: 3y
Category: Project Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

Our client is a company that enables people, enterprises, and cities to harness the power of location. By making sense of the world through the lens of location, it empowers their customers to achieve better outcomes from helping a city manage its infrastructure or an enterprise optimize its assets to delivering drivers to their destination safely.

We are working on external (non-OEM owned) hub for the secure and non-discriminatory distribution of vehicle sensor data. It is compliant with European standards in data privacy and security and uses blockchain smart contracts.

As a Scrum Master, you will work with 3 distributed teams (more than 20 people at large) to ensure comfortable and uninterrupted development and regular timely delivery of shippable increments. You don’t have to establish an exemplary flawless 100% pure Scrum here – rather set up a healthy culture fostering transparency, trust and high productivity.

For an experienced candidate, this is an opportunity to apply all your practical knowledge to challenging conditions. For someone with less experience, it will be a great place to learn and strengthen your skills. In any case, we’re looking for a practician (not a theorist) who’s ready to buckle down and do some serious work.

**Responsibilities:**

**1. Assurance of the Scrum process in the team**
Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
Guiding the team on how to get the most of out of self-organization.
Removing organizational level impediments and guiding the team on how they can do it themselves.
Detecting and fixing team dysfunctions and Agile antipatterns.

**2. Jira and administration**
Being a guardian of Sprint Scope following some ground rules and making sure POs also follow them.
Tracking issues and ensure they are being followed up on and resolved.
Measuring, tracking, communicating, and optimizing Scrum process KPIs (e.g. sprint velocity, sprint progress vs. sprint commitment, etc.).

**3. Team Management**
Building a trusting and psychologically safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing, learning, and problem-solving.
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
Enabling cross-team cooperation while also caring about team spirit.
Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution on squad and cross-squad level.
Helping teams become self-organized and cross-functional.
Understanding individual team members’ contribution and helping optimize team performance.

**4. Operational support**
Supporting Delivery Manager with general Delivery, HR and IT related operational activities.

**Requirements:**

**1. Skills**
Strong practical knowledge of Scrum framework (PSM 1 or CSM certificates are nice to have as they prove your willingness to learn as well as self-discipline and desire to achieve professional goals).
Deep understanding of Agile values and principles (you must be smart enough to apply 12 Agile Principles to particular project situation).
Advanced Jira user/admin skills (meaning that you know how to utilize Jira’s capabilities and apply your past experience to current project with necessary adjustments).
Understanding of software development standards, tools and practices at the level enabling Scrum Master to engage with engineers and Product Owners.
Upper-Intermediate level of English or higher.

**2. Experience**
Experience in leadership/management roles is a must.
Commercial experience improving delivery standards and processes within an Agile development team.
Experience scaling Scrum is desirable.
Experience in managing remote distributed teams.
Cases of healing teams’ dysfunctions.
Proficient at managing teams to fixed timelines, tracking burndown and expedite sprint delivery.

**3. Qualities**
Highly responsible and dedicated to get things done in time and in collaborative way.
Self-motivated and able to inspire others with the pragmatic and positive approach to work (leading by example).
Empathetic towards team members and customers and cool under pressure (even in the times of crisis).
Keeping focus on many things (several backlogs, several sprint goals, several conflicting interests, etc.) at the same time.
Excellent verbal and written communication, emotional intelligence and situational awareness.
Able to see even slight signs of disagreement and turn a threat of conflict to an opportunity to learn.
Agile in terms of working hours and adaptive to time