Scrum Master

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KPMG is currently seeking a Scrum Master to join our Digital Nexus organization.

Responsibilities:

• Help grow a collaborative and continuously improving engineering culture; teach and serve as example to the team of Scrum and agile values and principals; coach and give feedback to individuals (including senior leadership) and teams; facilitate Scrum Events as a Scrum Master, as requested
• Deliver effective conflict resolution between individuals and teams with an assertive but friendly attitude with excellent interpersonal skills; deliver effective methods and practices for managing and resolving impediments
• Act as an expert in estimation and planning techniques; explain and teach release planning in an empirical environment; explain the differences between various Scrum Scaling frameworks and approaches; demonstrate effective techniques for managing team interruptions and for protecting the team in a sprint; work beyond team boundaries to improve efficiencies, flow of work and value delivered
• Advocate for modern agile software development and organizational practices, such as XP, CI/CD, Devops, TDD, etc.; automate flow of Project Status and facilitate continuous and real-time transparency for effective communication, support and decision making
• Help individuals, teams and programs to clarify goals and actions to achieve them; utilize techniques to improve the efficiency of the development team
• Provide scaling expertise to align multiple agile teams, collaborate and facilitate planning with large groups, coach Product Owners on managing scaled product backlog of epics and features and facilitate decision making with Product Owners and Architects; coach and support a Product Owner in effective techniques for backlog creation, management and refinement

Qualifications:

• Minimum five years of recent experience as a Scrum Master leading multiple agile approaches (Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, Lean) with ability and flexibility to adapt approach to fit team and product environment experience
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university
• Technical experience developing software, portfolio level planning and/or business experience is preferred; experience with agile tools and scaling them across multiple teams is a plus
• Proven track record at facilitating, coaching and mentoring teams and leaders towards rapidly delivering high impact, high quality software in a sustainable fashion; relevant practitioner level certifications (PSMII/CSP) are preferred
• Deep expertise in helping teams build and develop trust, safety and effective communication; * demonstrated deep system level thinking and proven ability to impact whole program dynamics
• Experience with full SW development life cycle and advocating for modern agile software development and organizational practices as well as collaborating with non-agile teams; excellent visualization skills with ability to explain and create visual radiators

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