Client: chs

Location: remote

Duration: 1 year+

Rate: open

CHS is looking for a Senior Scrum Master to represent CHS within the larger Product & Agility transformation efforts. CHS is in the midst of a project to product transformation and need strong Senior Scrum Masters who are capable of serving multiple teams. Experience supporting teams focused on Enterprise Integration initiatives is strongly preferred. CHS has a vision to create self-service APIs, automated pipelines, and their next generation of enterprise integration capabilities. Their dedicated product team for enterprise integration focuses on improving customer satisfaction and driving continuous delivery of value to product stakeholders. Responsibilities and Duties: Servant Leader to Agile teams- 50% - Facilitates completion of work, using a servant-leadership style and approach fostering creativity, empowerment, cooperation, communication and productivity. - Identify impediments, removing those that prevent the team from making progress and escalating issues. - Enables the team to be self-organizing and operating to maximize productivity while continuously improving. - Builds a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving. - Facilitate getting the work done using discussion and decision-making techniques without dictating overall assignments. - Focuses the entire team on frequent delivery of high-value, high-quality outcomes. - Assess the maturity of the team and coach the team to achieve higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable for the team. - Positively Influences team health, build trust and ownership within the team. - Responsible for staying up-to-date on the health of their team. This involves understanding what's going on inside the team, what the state of their morale is, and what they're trying to do to improve the team. This also includes coaching them through issues when they occur. Agile Delivery Practices - 20% - Guides the team and organization on how to use agile practices and values, using appropriate Scrum, Kanban, XP, or other agile frameworks as needed. - Arrange and facilitate events and decision-making processes which may include product backlog refinement, estimating and sizing effort, release planning, demos, sprint planning, daily stand-ups and retrospective. - Ensures team goals and any performance metrics are identified and managed. - Helps coach the team on reducing interdependencies. - Assists with internal and external collaboration and communications. Partner - 20% - Encourage collaboration with the team and the business partners while ensuring delivery of value on a regular and frequent basis. - Facilitates the gathering of user and technical-stories and welcomes rapidly changing requirements to improve the product outcomes as business needs change. - Supports overall team by negotiating and advocating for team with stakeholders, helping to resolve conflict, minimizing distraction/disruption and providing hands-on mentorship when needed. - Develops and supports an internal Scrum Master Community of Practice. Best Practices/Community of Practices - 5% - Represent CHS within the larger Product & Agile communities (outside of CHS)