Here are sample job postings for Scrum roles:

Scrum Master

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in three iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. Since it was founded in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum’s galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing both new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.

GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:

We are seeking a talented, flexible, and focused Scrum Master to join our software development team focused on the Museum’s website and audience outreach efforts. This position is responsible for serving and supporting Product, UX, and Development in their quest to do everything possible to deliver great software that delights users and creates value for the Museum.

This is a highly rewarding role, and is part of a dynamic, forward-thinking and ambitious software development team responsible for connecting the Museum’s incredible art and scholarship with a global audience, both online and on-site.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Help lead the team in order to best utilize capabilities, to maximize self-organization, and to drive product goals. This person should personify Scrum and Agile while ensuring product delivery.
  • Guide and coach the Scrum team on agile principles and values
  • Identify systemic organizational and process issues, propose and deliver on solutions
  • Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments, ensuring smooth, and successful work execution
  • Build and maintain a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and solved collaboratively
  • Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
  • Facilitate getting the work done through collaboration, self-discipline and mutual respect
  • Assist with internal and external communication, improve transparency, and radiate information

· Effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making at the team or product delivery level

· Assist in creating useful, reliable, and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases

· Assist Product Owners and teams in story writing, backlog maintenance, and prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs

· Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching to higher levels of maturity

REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Experience and Skills:

  • Experience as a Scrum Master working with a software development team
  • Drive a culture of accountability within the team, focusing on commitment and delivery in service to our users and the institution
  • Experience delivering great software in a Scrum environment
  • Practice of continuous Integration or continuous delivery
  • Experience in applying and experimenting with a wide variety of Scrum and agile techniques in order to see what works best for the team (example: retrospective formats, feature estimation, tracking progress through burndowns, handling bugs, etc.)
  • Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
  • Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, conflict resolution, and team building
  • Demonstrated ability to creatively and proactively solve problems
  • Raw enthusiasm and a strong work ethic
  • Previous experience as a collaborative leader
  • Strong emotional intelligence, or the ability to be aware and manage their own emotions as well as others
  • Creativity, flexibility, sense of humor

Preferred Experience and Skills:

  • Experience on Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
  • Experience working with and integrating UX and user feedback into the development lifecycle
  • Experience with KPI’s, Metrics, and User Testing fundamentals

Knowledge and Education:

  • Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team and software development processes such as QA, automated testing, deployments
  • Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I, PSM II, PSM III)
  • Bachelor’s Degree in related field.

Scrum Master

Raft

Who we are:

We (https://goraft.tech/) are growing and looking for a Scrum Master who wants to be a part of a fun and passionate team and who shares our energy and enthusiasm. We enjoy technology and the challenges at scale. We are very remote friendly and big believers of open source tech.

What you will do:

  • Plan and conduct agile rituals to include: sprint planning, daily standup, backlog grooming, review, and retrospective
  • Work with diverse stakeholders and partners, including federal, state, and community-based partners to minimize the impact to the product team from disturbance and external distractions
  • Help the product team make visible and remove impediments in cooperation with federal and contract leadership
  • Coach team on reporting impediments and risks early and often
  • Create transparency by radiating information via e.g. the product and sprint backlog, daily Scrum, reviews and a visible workspace
  • Work with a remote-first team over Mattermost, Zoom, and GitHub

Who you are:

  • Experience delivering scalable products – MVP to Enhancements
  • Experience working in a large remote collaborative team including but not limited to user researchers, UX designers, front-end and back-end developers.
  • Experience managing the daily activities of the agile development team and facilitating the improvement of development culture
  • Experience guiding an agile development team towards self-organization, ensuring that a collaborative culture exists within the team, and supporting and enabling the team to reach their full potential and abilities
  • Certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CCSM) or similar certification a plus

Mandatory Requirements:

  • Scrum Certification
  • Experience working with federal/public entities

Agile Scrum Master

Examoto

Examoto is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to champion our Agile path and development. This individual has a deep understanding and respect for the principles and values of scrum as well as demonstrated success in guiding scrum teams towards organizational project goals. This individual will influence the scrum team and overall organization on how work gets done.

Responsibilities

· Develop a collaborative and trusted environment that supports the effective delivery of high-quality output

· Be an active advocate of agile methods, values, and principles

· Facilitate scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective

· Work with Product Owner to define and groom the product backlog throughout the entire project

· Guide the scrum team towards becoming self-organized and accountable

· Support and assist the scrum team in removing impediments standing in the way of project completion

· Coach the scrum team and outer organization in effective communication and collaboration strategies while working towards common goals

· Exhibit the confidence to play a proactive role in process development and tool evaluation

· Comply with all organizational policies and procedures and complete all regulatory and job training requirements

Required Skills and Experience

· 3+ years professional experience as a Scrum Master

· Strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps and its various extensions, including continuous integration pipelines

· Experience with the following technologies:

o C#, MVC, Microsoft .NET Core

o RESTful web services and OAuth 2.0

o Azure Services – App, MS SQL, Storage

o HTML, CSS, jQuery, MVC, Bootstrap, Blazor

o Xamarin mobile app platform

· A working knowledge of FDA 21CFR as applicable to SDLC

Required Professional Designations

· BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

Certified SCRUM Master (CSM)