Scrum Master - Junior

• Manages all aspects of one to three IT Epics from planning to deployment.
• Create, manage and execute project schedule for each epic.
• Facilitate team level processes and execution, escalate impediments, manage risks, and helps drive continuous improvement.
• Facilitate Scrum Events- daily standups, sprint planning and retrospectives in collaboration with the teams.
• Facilitates PI Planning readiness by preparing the teams for the PI events.
• Support lean-agile transformation, advising leaders, teams, in new processes and mindsets.
• Support adaption of SAFe to the organization
• Drives continuous improvement through team retrospectives.
• Responsible for ensuring that the committed to sprint backlog is completed.
• Supports team impediment removal and dependency tracking.
• Facilitates Agile team ceremonies e.g., daily standups, reviews, retrospectives.
• Ensures team agreements are in place.
• Drives team iteration commitments and plan to maximize business value delivery.
• Collaborates with other Scrum Masters across the ART as necessary e.g., Scrum of Scrums
• Coordinates with other teams as necessary, for example Shared Services or DevOps team.
• Key Partner with the Product Owner to ensure product backlog items are refined, prioritized and scheduled.
• Supports estimating activities within the team.
• Responsible for facilitating capacity planning.
• Reviews metrics to measure team progress and responsible for achieving baseline KPI.
• Validates time tracking.
• Tracks team objectives using appropriate Agile tools/applications.
• Protects team from external interference.
• Supports ART Readiness/Preparations
• May provide Flow Board Management if supporting a Kanban team.
• May be an Epic Owner

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent engineering skillset, training, or technical work experience (required)
• 1-2 years of experience as a scrum master (SAFe preferred)
• 3+ years of experience as a project manager
• Experience working in hybrid scrum and waterfall environment.
• A mindset for continuous process improvement, driven by a focus on delivering value through efficiency.
• Ability to influence effectively with and without formal authority.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, knowing your audience.
• Proven success working a highly collaborative, matrix environment, with a track record of measurable business impact.
• Capability to demonstrate critical thinking and proven track record of positive change.
• Solid understanding of agile methodology, scrum, SAFe, and agile tools (JIRA, Confluence)

• SAFe Agilist and SAFe Scrum Master (CSM) Certification preferred.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred.

Geopaq Logic