Chief Agile Scrum Master – Executive Coach
| Company | MFS |
|---|---|
| Location | Boston, MA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 8 – 12 years of experience in training, mentoring, and coaching teams in adopting and maintaining an Agile mindset, with experience in employing Scrum, Kanban, and modern engineering practices.
- Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master using scrum and kanban framework.
- Minimum of 5 years of direct people management experience.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Ability to manage a globally distributed team of Scrum Masters.
- Experience designing and delivering presentations and training to diverse audiences, including senior management, clients and groups that may blend technical and non-technical participants.
- Strong understanding of systems development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Directly manage a dynamic team of scrum masters and coach them in performing mature agile practices.
- Facilitate effective domain planning exercises (e.g. quarterly planning, monthly product synch, etc.).
- Leverage and build on metrics framework to assist in coaching teams and domains to improve delivery and product management.
- Assist teams in effective use of JIRA and Aha to optimize delivery.
- Remove domain impediments that are escalated by teams or through self-identification.
- Spearhead enterprise transformation initiatives as identified by the AEO.
- Encourages and promotes strong engineering practices like unit testing, test-driven development, continuous integration and automated testing.
- Coaches, mentors, and advises technology, business, and management teams in applying Agile values, principles, frameworks, and approaches.
- Active participant in the Scrum Master Community of Practice.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced certifications preferred.