Scrum Master Guadalajara, Mexico
Scrum Master Description
Job #: 57596DESCRIPTION
You are curious, persistent, logical and clever – a true techie at heart. You enjoy living by the code of your craft and developing elegant solutions for complex problems. If this sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join EPAM as a Scrum Master. Scroll down to learn more about the position’s responsibilities and requirements.
Responsibilities
- Communicate with management, developers, product owners and support specialists on product issues; improve inter-team communications
- Provide agile leadership and coaching to product owners, functional managers, executives and teams
- Facilitate the team’s and the organization’s continued adoption and adaption of Scrum
- Support the product development process:
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings; help the team abide by its time boxes and other agreements
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
- Maintain the Agile Release Board for their Scrum team
- Ensure the teams are practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward the consistent delivery of working product
- Assist as needed with backlog maintenance, and with User Story writing w/good Acceptance Test development
- Be a channel for internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs
- Support the Product Team:
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through relative backlog sizing, sprint story selection, task definition
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
- Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution; improve team dynamics
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as SCRUM Master
- Good Experience working with tools like Jira or Confluence
- Strong English Communication skills (you’ll be in charge of a multicultural team)
- Experience acting as main POC between Client Managers and engineering team
We offer
- Career plan and real growth opportunities
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- International Mobility Plan within 25 countries
- Constant training, mentoring, online corporate courses, eLearning and more
- English classes with a certified teacher
- Support for employee’s initiatives (Algorithms club, toastmasters, agile club and more)
- Enjoyable working environment (Gaming room, napping area, amenities, events, sport teams and more.)
- Flexible work schedule and dress code
- Collaborate in a multicultural environment and share best practices from around the globe
- Hired directly by EPAM & 100% under payroll
- Law benefits (IMSS, INFONAVIT, 15 days December bonus, 25% vacation bonus)
- Major medical expenses insurance: Life, Major medical expenses with dental & visual coverage. (For the employee and direct family members)
- 13 % employee savings fund, capped to the law limit
- Grocery coupons
- 10 vacations days plus 2 floating days
- Official Mexican holidays, plus two extra holidays (December 24th & 31st)
- Relocation bonus: transportation, 2 weeks of accommodation for you and your family and more
About the Project
Scrum master will guide the team trough the agile transformation: explaining processes and ceremonies, facilitating discussions.Team is not mature and it is in the progress of formation.
Responsibilities will also include creation of the project plan, task assignment, tracking progress, tracking and communication of the risks.