The Role:  As a Scrum Master, you will play an integral role in the delivery of MicroStrategy software to the market.  You will lead a group of Technology delivery teams to effectively reach corporate goals in a fast-paced, agile environment to deliver secure Business Intelligence and Analytics software to our customers.

Your Focus

• Champion Agile software development best practices, acting as a coach to multiple Scrum teams.
• Support the Product Owner in grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Track and communicate team status and progress via internal reporting, as well as other information radiators to the team, management, and stakeholders, ensuring it accurately reflects the current state.
• Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum team and others, collaborating within the Scrum Master network, especially concerning items necessary for product release.
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency and responsiveness to complete work and solve problems, with a strong drive to persevere when faced with ambiguity.
• Proactively remove or escalate roadblocks to allow team progress.
• Maintains relevant metrics to help the team monitor their performance.
• Encourages continual improvement by conducting retrospectives to help team efficiency and product quality.
• Coordinates timely response and support to production line customer issues, when escalated.
• Participates in the project release estimation process.

Required Experience and Skills:

Motivation, Innovation, Passion, Integrity, Teamwork, Customer-Focus 

You should also bring the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineer, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• Software development and/or Project Management experience in a technical environment across multiple teams using Agile methodologies.
• 5 years of hands-on Scrum Master experience (backlog management, iteration planning, performance measuring).
• CSM/PMP certifications preferred.
• Experience using Rally Software or other Agile software tools (VersionOne, Jira), and collaboration tools such as Confluence preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, time management, and influencing skills.
• Highly collaborative, and consistently demonstrate exceptional written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills, with ability to change framing and focus based on audience.
• Capable of presenting to an executive audience.
• Large/enterprise application development experience using Agile methodologies.
• Able to resolve conflicts, facilitate discussions, propose viable alternatives, and consider different approaches.
• Situational Awareness ­- must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management if they cannot be actioned independently.
• Persistent drive for continual team and self-improvement.
• Quick learner ­- must be able to quickly gain a high-level understanding of the technical and business domains of the Scrum teams.
• Passion for creating an environment for a successful agile team.
• Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision are required.
• Desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business teams about technical development to gain business trust.

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