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Senior Scrum Master

Posted 22 Mar 2024
Work experience
5 to 10 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required languages
English (Fluent)
Dutch (Fluent)

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As the Scrum Master, you will train and facilitate teams on the agile mindset and agile/lean frameworks and methods, including Scrum and Kanban. Drive and foster collaboration and transparency between Product Owner and development teams to support high performance. Support the Product Owner to maintain product backlog, release plan and support increased productivity by facilitating meetings and removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team's sprint goals. Preserve flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes.

The Scrum Master will support the Delivery Lead to guide and coach the organization on Agile delivery and scrum practices by evangelizing standards and best practices for adidas.

What we are looking for:

  • Strong team facilitation skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills including conflict resolution skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to explain and defend a view point and persuade others to a defined position
  • Ability to prioritize work objectives and goals
  • Experienced in coordinating the work of 1 - 2 scrum teams
  • Coaching and mentoring skills; focus on empathy and engagement

Key responsibilities

  • Act as an example in the role of a true leader by exhibiting Lean-Agile leadership and helping team members embrace agile values, adopting and applying agile principles, and implementing agile practices
  • Identify dysfunctions within the team and help resolve the same either by the team or by bringing it to the notification of leadership at the right time
  • Facilitates agile / team meetings, e.g. sprint kick-off, DSM, sprint review, retrospective
  • Maintains situational awareness of ongoing and scheduled work
  • Removes roadblocks, allowing the team to move forward
  • Works with the Product Owner to continuously refine scheduling and estimation for the product roadmap and backlog
  • Provides clear metrics (flow framework, velocity, burn-down, etc.) for both internal (scrum team) and external stakeholders (product leadership, management).
  • Actively works to improve team performance with metrics and continuous process improvement based on team retrospectives

Required knowledge

  • 5+ years work experience as a dedicated Scrum Master
  • Knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
  • Scrum Master certificate or similar experience
  • Proficiency in Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Teams
  • Expertise in enterprise Agile frameworks such as Scaled Agile Framework (nice to have)
  • Bachelor’s degree

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