Scrum Master - Intermediate
Need only local to Houston, TX
Oil & Gas mandatory

 Description:
 Scrum Master for a Houston-based team supporting windows active directory, PKI certificate servers, and other elements of the Client tier 0 security environment.

Daily Responsibilities:

•  Encourages team to make and meet execution commitments and removes impediments to the team.
•  Encourages the team to establish and adhere to quality standards.
•  Facilitates team ceremonies – Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospectives to guide work execution & Continuous Improvement.
•  Implements effective backlog management; Keep the status of all work up to date in the backlog through backlog grooming in order to generate standard metrics to improve team performance.
•  Collaborates with the Staff Development Manager, Product Owner, System Architect and Delivery Team to establish and update Working Agreements on execution plans, priorities, capacity, definition of ready, definition of done.
•  Collaborates with Release Train Engineer in Scrum of Scrum and helps to facilitate PI planning.
•  Facilitates skills assessment activities (i.e. “Skills Bingo”) to ensure team is prepared for work commitments.
•  Ensures Azure DevOps (ADO) Core Fields are completed.
•  Incident Management – keep track of aging tickets and help team resolve incidents timely
•  Coordinates team building activities.

 Required Experience:
 3-5 years’ experience leading Agile teams
 Proficiency with MS Azure DevOps Boards

 Preferred Experience:
 SAFe Scrum Master or Advanced Scrum Master Certification
 Infrastructure support or Windows engineering background

Department: Preferred Vendors
This is a contract position