Position: Senior Scrum Master
Company: Forte Group
Category: Other
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

Forte is seeking a motivated Scrum Master to help maintain our existing product and evolve it into a set of fault-tolerant, autonomously scalable, and performant services in Azure.
You will lead software product development teams to define work charters and milestones, user story maps, and sprint plans, maintain groomed prioritized product backlogs, proactively identify and mitigate risks to deliverables, communicate work status to internal stakeholders, and balance scope, cost, and time to define and achieve team goals and success criteria.

**Project Description:**
As a Scrum Master, you will have the opportunity to be a part of a team working on a web application to automate the analysis of customer financial information. Will work on a mortgage offer aggregator that allows users to upload all financial documents and get information on what conditions they could get a mortgage.

**Team structure and Workflow:**
The team is integrated and allocated in Belarus, Ukraine, and Chicago. Team members use Azure DevOps to generate backlog and to prioritize items. Communication mainly consists of daily meetings and interpersonal communication via Slack and Google Meet. 

**Responsibilities:**
● Help the development team create high-value products
● Create project goals, scope, and success criteria, involving all relevant stakeholders
● Ensure goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on a development team
● Manage scope, cost, and schedule to deliver milestones and value
● Help the development team create clear and concise Product Backlog items
● Help the Product Owner arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value
● Understand and practice agility
● Facilitate Scrum events as requested or needed
● Remove impediments to the development team’s progress
● Lead and coach the organization in agile software development adoption
● Cause change that increases the productivity of the development team
● Create detailed milestone-based project plans
● Proactively identify issues and dependencies to on-time milestone completion and mitigate risk to prevent the issue from becoming reality.  
● Actively and continuously engage team members, dependent resources, and stakeholders in creative, collaborative problem solving to keep the team (and milestone delivery) on track instead of only reporting risk and allowing a milestone to slip
● Recommend solutions to ensure sufficient resource availability; provide reliable estimates of resource allocations required for project success
● Measure development team performance using appropriate tools and techniques
● Create and maintain comprehensive sprint documentation, charts, and dashboards
● Lead continuous improvement in our agile sprint process, practice, and tool usage

**Required Experience and Skills:**
● 3+ years of experience in a Scrum Master role
● Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to maximize shared understanding and minimize confusion.  Ability to communicate as effectively to individual contributors as you do with management
● Comfortable communicating technical matters with business people and business matters with technical people.  Able to express complex concepts in plain language to reach broader audiences
● Maniacal attention to details, balanced with the ability to absorb large amounts of information and distill it down to the essentials
● You have strong people skills, with a distinctive ability to motivate and influence people without authority or a direct reporting relationship
● Excellent negotiation, conflict management, and resolution skills.  You diplomatically facilitate teams to the successful resolution of issues
● Strong aptitude and desire to learn new technologies and leverage tools of the trade, such as productivity tools and project management applications

**Nice to haves:**
● Professional Scrum Master (PSM) I, II, or III 
● Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) – Scrum Alliance 
● Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Math, or Computer/Electrical Engineering

**We offer:**
● Experience working with colleagues locally and abroad;
● Opportunities for self-realization;
● Friendly team and enjoyable working environment;
● Professional and corporate events;
● Social package: professional & soft skills trainings, medical & family care programs, sports;
● English classes in the office with a dedicated teacher