Agile Facilitator

**Description**:
The Scrum Master is responsible for designing, evolving, and driving adoption of delivery practices that ensure predictable outcomes. In this role, you will foster good communication within and across teams, remove blockers, and shepherd our most important software initiatives to successful delivery.

**Responsibilities**:

- Perform the role of Scrum Master for one or more teams, leading multiple, simultaneous initiatives

Practice the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, accountability, and continuous improvement

Facilitates Scrum ceremonies i.e., Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives

Helps the team define norms/agreements, like a Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, and enforces the agreements

Ensures the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog (in collaboration with the PO

Acts as an Agile Coach, promoting and coaching the Agile mindset and principles, empowering the team to become self-managing and fulfill their cross-functional potential

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Provide status reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs), schedule, resources, and milestone delivery

Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the team

Work closely with Product and Program Management to manage and deliver key initiatives

Coach and mentor in Scrum and Agile process

**Skills**:

- 3+ years practicing Scrum in a software business

Strong Communication skills and ability to collaborate across multiple departments

Self-starter, self-driver; bring expertise to the table to drive process improvements backed by data

Strong knowledge of agile principles and techniques (ex. Scrum / XP / Kanban) and scaled agile frameworks such as the Scaled Agile Framework for the Enterprise (SAFe)

Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor

Excellent repertoire of team-building activities and collaborative leadership

Skilled at optimization of teams and processes

Proficient in JIRA

Proven track record of assisting the Product Owner and Development Team in delivering business value

Experience in identification and resolution of organizational impediments that impact team maturity and performance

Enables the team to become high-performing through collaboration and a relentless focus on continuous improvement including cross-skilling across the team

Ability to facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution across teams, stakeholders, and executives, including external teams, business partners, and other Agile Release Trains/programs

Change and Release Management experience and knowledge

Ability to influence and guide business and technology leaders on changes that enable Agility

Experience in facilitating significant improvements to the operating model and the end-to-end delivery process

Experience in Kanban also, a plus Ability to analyze and think quickly to resolve conflict

Experience in dealing with ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment

Motivated and a hands-on team player, persistent, and results-oriented

Able to consistently meet deadlines and self-manage through shifting priorities and demands

High level of positive energy, enthusiasm, and self-motivation

**Tools & Systems**:

- Atlassian Enterprise Suite (Jira, Jira Service Desk, Confluence, etc.)

G-Suite & Slack (or similar communication platforms)

**Locations**

Remote, Colombia, Remote, Costa Rica

**Remote status**

Fully Remote