Scrum Master

Job Title: Scrum Master

CLIENT:  SHELL

Location: Houston, TX

 

We are looking for a Scrum Master to support a new development team. This role will

encourage people to do things differently in a new department utilising human-centred design

with an agile mindset to tackle complex problems in original ways.

With a great variety of potential projects in the portfolio, there are many different areas to

investigate, so you'll certainly not be bored! We're looking for a Scrum Master with the ability to

tackle varied problem areas in terms of people, industry and scenarios. Candidates should be

able to create the environment for a team to deliver value, be highly independent, confident in

their abilities and flexible enough to adapt to an evolving landscape.

Essential Duties:

● Guiding the team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values.

● Guiding the team on how to get the most of our self-organisation.

● Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organisation and coaching the team to

higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and

organisation.

● Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments.

● Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of

blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.

● Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.                                        

● Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

● Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and

radiating information.

● Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining

the product backlog.

● Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible,

and leading by example.

Required Skills/Experience:

● Experience in playing the Scrum Master role.

● Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness,

conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

● The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques

to enhance the Scrum approach (e.g. progress visualisation techniques, retrospective

formats, approaches for handling bugs, etc.).

Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus):

● Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g. XP,

Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.)

● Excellent communication and mentoring skills

 

 

 

Look forward working with you…

Thanks & Regards

Pooja Samya

Technical Recruiter

Siri Info Solutions Inc

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