Scrum Master

**Position**:Scrum Master

**Location**:Remote | Colombia

**Type**:Full-Time (1-year contract with the opportunity to be extended)

**Shift Schedule**:9 am - 5 pm UK time or 10 am - 6 pm UK Time

**Ample opportunity to grow with the company as we scale.**

To support our ambitious growth plans, we're looking for a **Scrum Master **to join our remote-first cross-functional tech team of engineers, and data scientists & ML specialists.

We have developed a core document-processing capability for a rapidly expanding corpus of published regulations and supported regulatory themes. Your role will be to work closely with tech leadership to roll out the crucial organisational tooling which facilitates it — for internal stakeholders such as crawler engineers, annotators, regulatory analysts, and data scientists — and the customer-facing APIs which realise its value to paying customers & end-users.

**Mandatory Pre-requisites**:

- Must have their own laptop/desktop which meets minimum qualifications:

- Processor - Core i5 or higher, RAM - 8GB or higher
- Bandwidth Requirements Minimum
- Download Speed: at least 6 Mbps; Upload Speed: at least 6 Mbps.
- Need to install an RMM, MDM, and EDR on their laptops to ensure we are compliant from a cybersecurity standpoint
- A quiet, private place in your home where you can work without background noise and without interruption.

**About us**:
1840 & Company is a globally managed marketplace for vetted professional resources and outsourcing solutions. We proactively curate a marketplace of freelance marketers, developers, and finance professionals globally. Additionally, 1840 and Company delivers managed outsourcing solutions such as contact Centers and back-office solutions are currently from a work-from-home model. At 1840 & Company, we rely on knowledgeable professionals to interact with our valued customers when they have questions or concerns

**Qualifications**:

- 1-2 years of experience as a Scrum Master for software development projects, with evidence of increasing growth and responsibility
- Understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles
- A thorough understanding of backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition is required.
- Excellent project management, budget estimation and management, resource planning and assessment, financial planning, and risk assessment abilities.
- Thorough understanding of project management methodology, tools, and techniques
- Ability to motivate, coach, counsel, and train developers.

**Responsibilities**:

- Hands-on project management and delivery of multiple complex projects at any given time in order to meet technology and business requirements on time.
- Schedules and facilitates scrum ceremonies and decision-making processes
- Providing Scrum team statistics, identifying solutions, team capacity, forecasts, burndowns/burn-ups, dashboards, and user stories.
- Provide strong leadership and accountability for the development and implementation of Project Management required to support business solutions, technical delivery, escalations, and impact assessment.
- Provides visibility into delivery targets, commitments, and progress at weekly calls with management and stakeholders
- Foster a strong work environment that recognizes and rewards individual and team efforts; encourages creativity while maintaining high levels of productivity and quality; and reduces team conflict and communication issues.
- Demonstrates an attitude of team focus to accomplish overall project goals, and maintains a ‘we’re all in this together’ approach.

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