Scrum Master Sofia, Bulgaria
Scrum Master Description
Job #: 61367DESCRIPTION
You are curious, persistent, logical and with a growth mindset – a true techie at heart. You truly believe in agile principles and enjoy empowering software engineering teams to deliver elegant solutions for complex problems. You are a team player, whose motivation and curiosity can inspire the people around you. If this sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join EPAM as a SCRUM MASTER and make our team even stronger.
Responsibilities
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, and release planning
- Lead development teams to inspire the adoption of the Agile mindset, principles, and practices, e.g. collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, transparency, etc
- Update tracking systems and keep track of metrics to support team growth. Ensure the transparency of the Product & Sprint Backlogs
- Recommend improvements and assist in adopting good practices
- Support the development managers and project leads when necessary
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Support the team with appropriate commitments through good PBIs definition, selection, and sprint goal elaboration
- Identify and remove impediments. Deal with distractions, interfering with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
- Facilitate discussions and support conflicts resolution
- Empower the teams to self-organize and self-manage
Requirements
- 5 years in the industry and at least 2 years of relevant professional experience being a Scrum Master for different teams
- Good understanding of the Agile mindset, principles and practices, and how and when to apply them in product development
- You lead by example by demonstrating and evangelizing the Scrum values every day
- Strong mediation and negotiation skills
- Strong problem-solving characteristics
- Good project management skills
- Good organizational skills
- Knowledge and experience with: Lean, Kanban, XP, Scaling frameworks
- Skills and knowledge in leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
- Clear, concise communication skills and good command of written and spoken English
Nice to have
- Certified Scrum master and other Agile Certification
- Technical background will be considered as a strong advantage
We offer
- Personal development program that will allow you to be valued for your strengths
- Wide range of professional trainings and workshops
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- Attractive salary, additional health and dental insurance as well as other social benefits
- Broad projects variety and possible mobility between projects over the time
- Experience exchange with colleagues around the world
- Work-life balance and flexible schedule, team buildings and sport opportunities
- Modern office in the Infinity Tower business center
- If you are interested in this role please send your CV in English. All applications will be treated as strictly confidential
- Only short-listed applicants will be contacted
Great! What's Next?
- Send us your up-to-date CV or LinkedIn profile, representing your skills and past projects’ achievements
- We’ll get in touch with you and help you ensure you’ve identified the most suitable role we have for you based on your strengths and passion
- We’ll invite you for follow up technical conversations with your potential future colleagues and/or project, which can be done face to face in a calm meeting room at our office or via video conferencing call from your cozy place
- At the end we will align how we can best proceed further in a mutual agreement