What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at Horizontal Talent?
Responsibilities:
- Leads the data team’s tasks and manages team working agreements.
- Plans, leads, organizes, and motivates one or more cross-functional items of high complexity, organizational importance, and visibility.
- Coordinate development dependencies that may span multiple development teams.
- Work with project stakeholders to define release scope, and deliverables in support of business goals.
- Act as a primary communication hub between functional departments and the scrum team to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time.
- Participate in creating and managing project timelines as per the project schedule so that timelines are met
- Remove impediments for the teams and escalate the need for resolution of impediments to stakeholders such as product teams, scrum teams, as needed.
- Coordinate and oversee performance of resources and set expectations accordingly; and work with resource manager to address performance issues, as appropriate.
- Develop and grow business relationships vital to the success of the project.
- Coordinate and facilitate sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
- Drive development of release and sprint roadmaps.
- Assist product owners with backlog creation and grooming of stories (user flow journeys).
- Promote Agile and Scrum best practices across the organization.
- Report status of teams to executive audience.
- Possess general understanding in the areas of application programming, database, and system design.
- Proven experience managing large, complex web application development is preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in any business/technical discipline or equivalent experience required.
- Facilitate the intake and refinement of roadmap items for development.
- Manage the daily scrum, sprint planning, refinements, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings.
- Track the progress of roadmap items to remove blockers and increase transparency across the organization.
- Gather and communicate technical requirements to detail-oriented, non-technical stakeholders.
- Design and author progress reports for senior executive and key stakeholders.
- Associate Degree and 8 years of directly relevant work experience.
- Bachelor’s Degree and 7 years of directly relevant work experience.
- Master’s Degree and 6 years of directly relevant work experience.