Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Sr. Scrum Master, you will facilitate Agile ceremonies, stakeholder meetings, and serve as the voice of your development team as you ensure their ability to deliver valuable software in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment. You possess an understanding of SAFe and Agile principles and practices, and will become a subject matter expert in the product(s) your team supports. You collaborate naturally, are organized and detail-oriented, are a confident and skilled communicator, and are a servant leader to your colleagues. You are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we are doing wrong so we can fix it, and what we are doing right so we can improve upon it.

Skills, Expertise, and Expectations:

• Agile certification such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Project Management Institute Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP), or SAFe Agilist.
• 5+ years' experience serving as a Technical Project Manager, Scrum Master, or Agile Coach for one or more development teams.
• Ability to collaborate with Product Owners and other business stakeholders and engineers to understand the product vision/roadmap and translate into product backlog items.
• Ability to create clearly-worded user stories and to verbally communicate functional requirements to various audiences possessing a range of technical and business knowledge.
• Possesses strong leadership, teamwork, interpersonal, and presentation skills; must be comfortable interacting directly with federal customer leadership, and serving as the voice of the development team/presenting in large virtual meetings.

• Desire to take ownership, be creative with problem solving, and proactively secure the objectives of the team and program mission.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including demos, retrospectives, planning, backlog refinement, and daily stand-up meetings.
• Facilitate estimation and prioritization of product backlog items as needed with technical team and business stakeholders.
• Responsible for assisting in administrative tasks on behalf of the team such as scheduling meetings, providing status reports, briefing materials for senior level leadership, and serving as release manager.
• Will collaborate closely with all team members including developers, quality assurance engineers, business analysts, and designers to shepherd product backlog items from inception through production deployment.
• Possess excellent communication skills; both verbal and written.
• Potentially serve as a manager to a small number of team members.

Introduction
At IBM, our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team's overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports, and as Project Manager, you will drive the charge with project direction, metric definition, and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed, we would love to meet you!

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Years of Experience: 7+ years of relevant professional experience
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in a related field
• Location: Remote; must be available to work on Eastern time zone schedule
  
  Clearance:
• Residence within the U.S. for three (3) of the past five (5) years, and current residence within the U.S.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DHS EOD (Public Trust) - existing Public Trust desired

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
• Will collaborate closely with all team members including developers, quality assurance engineers, business analysts, and designers to shepherd product backlog items from inception through production deployment.
• Possess excellent communication skills; both verbal and written.
• Potentially serve as a manager to a small number of team members.

Required Education
None

Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree

About Business Unit
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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Other Relevant Job Details
IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to: - Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being - Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs - Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law - Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals - Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year. This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law. US Citizenship Required.

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