SCRUM MANAGER

Job description

A Certified Scrum Master with strong DWBI background to support Corporate Sales Reporting and Analytics Programs and Projects. The Scrum of Scrums Master will be acting in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment that is team centric and highly collaborative

• Responsible for acting as scrum master in accordance with duties set for the by the Scrum Alliance; focusing on removing blockers/impediments for their team while promoting self-management, and constantly maximizing the value created by development teams
• Lead SCRUM teams of business analysts, developers, deployers and testers to plan deliverables for each development sprint
• Should have proven track records of being solution and delivery focused, and who can lead strategic, cross-functional, business facing and technical initiatives
• Lead sprint planning, end of sprint checkpoint reviews, sprint retrospectives, daily scrums, and defect review meetings
• Update Product Backlog Items to include new or revised requirements and backlog items. Support Deliverables to include Release Burn Down Charts, Sprint Burn Down Charts and Defect Log

Education

• BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Management Information Systems and/or equivalent work experience.

Required

• Certified Scrum Master or Certified SAFe Agilist
• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 8 years
• Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Master on a large distributed team – 5 years
• Strong SQL Knowledge and DWBI concepts
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Experience in one or more Agile tools: JIRA, Rally, TFS
• Experience/Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe), Crystal, FDD
• Experience in Airlines Industry

Preferred skill set

• Experience with Oracle, Teradata, AWS Redshift/Hadoop open source data platforms
• Experience with Business Objects-Crystal Reports or Ab Initio for reporting
• Experience with Tableau, Spotfire, Alteryx or other visualization tools

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