Scrum Master

This is a direct hire opportunity in Louisville, KY with a growing, cutting edge organization.
The Scrum Master will be responsible for leading and coaching multiple platform and application development teams. Other responsibilities will include coordinating and scheduling team ceremonies, measuring progress and monitoring team performance (scope, schedule, quality) and coordination with other scrum masters and subject matter experts to resolve impediments and understand key inter-team dependencies. This individual will be tasked with helping the organization embrace scrum principles and Agile development best practices in order to drive the successful, on-time and high quality delivery of product development activities.

Responsibilities Include:
Serving as Scrum Master for 2-3 teams, providing guidance to teams and organization on how to apply Agile/Scrum best practices.
Collaborating with the Product Owner to ensure backlogs are groomed and maintained.
Organizing and facilitating daily stand-ups, requirement estimation, sprint & release planning, demos, retrospectives and other related team meetings.
Tracking and reporting of all relevant team performance metrics to ensure organizational transparency, including but not limited to team velocity, sprint & release status.
Proactively identifying and removing team impediments thru consistent focus on creative problem solving by the team, as well as thru collaboration with appropriate subject matter experts and decision makers.
Ensuring team tracking tools and relevant documentation are maintained and current at all times.
Ongoing assessment of the Scrum maturity of the team(s) and organization; coaching the team to higher levels of maturity in order to get the most out of self-organization, at a pace that is sustainable and appropriate for the team and organization.

Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems or related field.
A proven track record of successfully implementing software or web development projects, with 2 years of experience serving in a Scrum Master role leading cross-functional teams in a fast-paced services environment.
Experience leading multiple teams concurrently, with direct responsibility for tracking and reporting on key metrics.
Foundational understanding of iterative development fundamentals, and the value of metric reporting.
Demonstrated ability to apply best practices re: backlog management, capturing burndown and velocity metrics and task-level definition/estimation.
Hands-on experience with other development methodologies and ability to leverage these techniques as appropriate to strengthen team productivity and deliverable quality.