Job Title: Scrum Master
Location: Princeton,NJ (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ Months

 Responsibilities: 

• In this role, you will be working with a team of enthusiastic members supporting our critical technology systems and guiding our business partners & end users with industry best practices, solution design, and creating long term value to our customers. 

• Act as Servant leader to an Agile team. 

• Educate Agile teams to maximize efficiency and performance from Scaled Agile practices and values. 

• Coach Agile teams in self-organization and continuous improvement. 

• Guide the Agile teams to consistently deliver customer value. 

• Manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies within and across Agile teams. 

• Facilitate Scrum events including Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, and Retrospectives. 

• Work with Product Owners to ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by every member of the Agile team. 

• Establish and maintain open and clear lines of team communication to facilitate progress transparency. 

• Work with peer Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and Agile Coaches to increase the effectiveness of Scaled Agile. 

What we’re looking for:  

• A person with ‘Team First’ mindset with an ability to build and sustain trust at all levels across the organization 

• Ability to develop and foster teamwork. Ability to gauge how the team is doing and to drive the necessary actions to improve 

• Emotional intelligence, level-headed diplomat, skilled listener, and clear communicator, with strong empathy traits, able to remain objective and constructive in all situations 

• Ability to facilitate constructive debate and resolve disagreements and conflicts constructively 

• Deliver hands-on training and coaching of defined Agile practices to individual teams and programs. 

• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and cross-regionally across multiple Product portfolios 

• Understand other engineering processes and methodologies and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/Enterprise 

Basic Qualifications: 

• Experience leading teams as a Scrum Master 

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 

• Basic knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC) 

• Proven ability to identify and mitigate risks 

• Team-first, servant leader mentality 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Certified SAFe Scrum Master 

• Certified PSM or CSM