Scrum Master

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The Scrum Master will facilitate the delivery of working software utilizing established Agile practices across several convergent teams. Will coordinate efforts from disparate departments and guide work through analysis, design, prioritization, implementation, and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support the defined Clinical Surveillance and Compliance Agile development methodology
• Assist in maturing our Agile development methodology by focusing on lean principles and taking advantage of teaching opportunities with other teammates
• Assist in building group consensus on process changes and communicate changes to all impacted areas
• Maintain configurations for project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, Slack, etc)
• Work with Product and Development teams to build release plans
• Forecast and report on capacity for each of your responsible teams
• Collect high-level goals from Product and Development and socialize appropriately
• Facilitate the scheduling of work into the release
• Facilitate various Agile ceremonies
• Coordinate Release activities and prepare teams for launch (landing)
• Attend, and lead as necessary, a series of release related stand-ups, check-ins, and coordination meetings for each release
• Communicate, maintain, and update release plans
• Drive teams to meet release milestones and raise concerns as they arise
• Facilitate post-release issue resolution between development teams and support
• Attend, and lead as necessary, release level retros with each team to ensure we continue to be a learning organization
• Track team metrics and address trends
• Compile a monthly reporting for presentation to the senior leadership team (SLT)
• Make sure Agile ceremonies are held for each team and participate as available or needed
• Monitor future iterations to make sure teams have enough prioritized and estimated work for 2 iterations
• Monitor the next upcoming iteration to make sure teams have work Ready for Development
• Facilitate meetings and coordinate agenda and action items for various meetings
• Help to manage third-party vendor deliverables
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of Agile team membership,
• 1+ years leading an Agile team
• Proficient at Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Strong understanding of the Agile SDLC
  
  

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Wolters Kluwer U. S. Corporation and all of its subsidiaries, divisions and customer/business units is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.