Position: Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Company: Unicsoft
Experience required: 5y
Category: Scrum Master
English level: upper
Published: 2022-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

This role is expected to be hands-on, especially in the beginning phase with each team, and then switch to a coaching phase as the team takes on the Scrum Master role internally.
We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master/Agile Coach to join our development teams on a temporary basis to stabilize agile practices and enable the team to take this over internally and become self-organized. This role is expected to be hands-on, especially in the beginning phase with each team, and then switch to a coaching phase as the team takes on the Scrum Master role internally.
This role is expected to be hands-on, especially in the beginning phase with each team, and then switch to a coaching phase as the team takes on the Scrum Master role internally.

Project contains 7 development teams, varying in size from 3 to 9 people. Teams include roles of Business Analyst, Software Architect, Software Engineer and Quality Engineers.

Goals:
- Establish and enhance excellent agile practices in our Product Delivery teams, using the principles of Scrum, KanBan and Scaled Agile.
- All development teams use common scrum/agile practices to organize work and make it transparent to team members and leadership
- Improve team spirit and collaboration by applying agile principles

Responsibilities:
- Act as Scrum Master for 1-3 scrum teams at a time
- Setup and attend all Scrum/Agile ceremonies for each team
- Setup and improve Jira Scrum/Kanban boards
- Gather and implement improvements, after discussion with Product Delivery Leadership
- Train scrum masters within teams
- Create scrum master community across Product Delivery to share practices and ensure consistency
- Utilize Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) and associated plugins (Big Picture) to efficiently collaborate and make work visible
- Establish a common approach to capacity planning
- Establish a common approach to achieving high level estimates
- Look for opportunities to implement scaled Agile principles

Requirements (Hard skills requirements):
-Upper-Intermediate English verbal and written communication skills.
- Clear understanding of principles and specifics of software development methodologies.
- Extensive knowledge of business analysis activities and techniques.
- Knowledge of business process optimization and modeling approaches.
- Knowledge of requirements management tools (JIRA & Confluence).
- Knowledge of prototyping tools. IT industry experience: 3 years or more, including collaboration with clients abroad.
- Experience in business analysis: 3 years or more, including defining solutions from idea to production.
- Experience in Agile methodologies: 1 year or more.
- Experience with API, data modelling and mapping, system integration