Senior Scrum Master

Job Description

Description

Securonix provides the Next-Generation Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) solution. As a recognized leader in the SIEM industry, Securonix helps some of the largest organizations globally to detect sophisticated cyber-attacks and rapidly respond to these attacks within minutes. With the Securonix SNYPR platform, organizations can collect billions of events each day and analyze them in near real time to detect advanced persistent threats (APTs), insider threats, privilege account misuses and online fraud. Securonix pioneered the User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) market and holds patents in the use of behavioral algorithms to detect malicious activities. The Securonix SNYPR platform is built on big data Hadoop technologies and is infinitely scalable. Our platform is used by some of the largest organizations in the financial, healthcare, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and federal sectors.

Job Title: Senior Scrum Master

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Total Experience: 7+ Years

Relevant Experience: 4-6 years

Primary Skill Sets: Scrum Master

Secondary Skill Sets: Agile

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are looking for an experienced Sr Scrum Master to oversee and guide scrum teams. The Sr Scrum Master’s responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilities meetings, and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

To be successful as a Sr Scrum Master, you should have a firm grasp of agile practices and ability to effectively manage and mentor development teams. An outstanding scrum master should have excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide ongoing mentoring in various areas of Agile and Scrum and serve as Agile proponent throughout organization.
• Strongly serve and support the Product Owner and Development Team.
• Guiding and coaching the Scrum Team and Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gpas left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks..
• Maximize delivery flow and efficiencies by removing impediments that the scrum team faces.
• Facilitate scrum meetings, setup sprints, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Oversee scrum of scrums and multiple scrum teams.
• Manage internal readiness for product/service launches making sure teams are ready to support new capabilities, products, and services.
• Work with cross functional teams involved in product release in a matrixed and distributed environment.
• Work closely with the product, development, and QA teams on releases to ensure they are on time and stable.
• Support communication of delivery progress, gaps and obstacles with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Create weekly reports on project status and team performance to stakeholders/executive team. Track sprint metrics (e.g. velocity, capacity, sprint goals, etc).
• Track project deliverables using Project Management tool (Jira).
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.
• Coordinate with Infrastructure teams on environment set up, code deployments and production releases.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• At least 7+ years’ experience as Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager.
• Must be someone who has gone through Agile transformation playing a role in introducing Agile and stabilizing the processes. It is not necessary for the candidate to have led the transformation but has participated in it and knows what it takes to do a complete overhaul of the teams, implement new processes and be able to drive it.
• Experience managing projects following Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.
• Must have experience managing technology projects in a SaaS and cloud-based environments.
• Must have ability to thrive in a fast paced and dynamic work culture that is highly matrixed.
• Must have experience building and driving software development processes.
• Familiar with Agile manifesto, values, principles, processes and methods such as iterative and incremental development, continuous integration, test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, code refactoring, pair programming, and Scrum ceremonies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and time management skills.
• Experience with tools such as JIRA, GitHub, Confluence, etc.
• Ability to have tough conversations.
• Solid understanding of Epics, Features, Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.
• Strong interpersonal skills in partnering with teams spanning development, Infrastructure, marketing, product, sales, and support.
• Experience in sizing projects and adjusting due to constraints. 

BENEFITS:

As a full-time employee with Securonix, you will be eligible for the following employee benefits:

• Our medical insurance is with Cigna as we offer 4 plans to choose from. Our vision and dental insurance are both PPO plans.
• Securonix pays for your STD, LTD and Basic Life AD&D benefit.
• Securonix also provides you access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost. This program, available through Mutual of Omaha, provides professional, confidential telephonic or face-to-face counseling services to you and your loved ones.
• With our 401(K) you are eligible to participate the 1st of the month, following 60 days of employment.
• At Securonix we offer a Flexible Time Off plan, please speak to one of our Talent Attraction Specialists for details.

Securonix is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an innovative, inclusive, diverse and discrimination-free work environment. Employment with Securonix is based on merit, competence, and qualifications. It is our policy to administer all personnel actions, including recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal and state laws. Consistent with the obligations of these laws, Securonix will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Furthermore, as a federal government contractor, Securonix maintains an affirmative action program which furthers its commitment and complies with recordkeeping and reporting requirements under certain federal civil rights laws and regulations, including Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (as amended) and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (as amended).

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit candidates through this application. Securonix does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency submissions for candidates and will not pay fees to any third-party agency without a prior agreement with Securonix.

As part of our compliance with these obligations, Securonix invites you to voluntarily self-identify as set forth below. Provision of such information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your employment or subject you to any adverse treatment. Any and all information provided will be considered confidential, will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file, and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders and regulations, including those that require the information to be summarized and reported to the federal government for civil rights enforcement purposes.