As a Scrum Master, you will play a vital role in facilitating the scrum process and ensuring the team's success in delivering high-quality software products.
You will work closely with members of cross-functional teams such as software development managers, developers, QA, product owners, and other stakeholders, to drive efficiency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
This role requires strong leadership skills, influencing behaviors, excellent communication abilities, and a deep understanding of agile methodologies.
Our team is highly productive and works with urgency every day to provide the expected high-quality software solutions to our public safety professionals.
Individuals who seek out additional responsibilities and have an action-oriented mindset thrive on this team.
This role reports to the Director of Program Management who understands the engineering organization and other internal business organizations that support the engineering team.
Committed to building partnerships, generating ideas, making continuous improvements, refining processes, and supporting the success of each team we interact with.
Responsibilities Serve the Engineering and Product Management teams to successfully manage our agile methodology to deliver business value iteratively.
Emphasizing collaboration, adaptability, and transparency with Engineering and Product Management to achieve high-quality software solutions.
Facilitate Agile Process: Act as a servant-leader for software development teams, guiding and coaching them in adopting and implementing agile principles and scrum practices. Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure effective communication, collaboration, and progress tracking. Foster a collaborative environment that promotes commitment, predictability, transparency, self-organization, and accountability. Assist software development managers in providing visibility into the team's velocity, sprint burndown, and other relevant metrics to enable data-driven decision-making and identify areas for improvement. Provide regular updates to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and visibility into the team's work and progress.
These updates are in various forms based on the audience to include written, verbal, presentation, and dashboard. Team Support: Support the scrum team in achieving their objectives by removing obstacles or impediments hindering progress and helping them make decisions autonomously. Help the team maintain focus and ensure adherence to scrum ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Agile Process Management: Ensure the team adheres to scrum practices and processes and continuously improve them as needed. Coach the team on agile techniques and encourage adherence to agile engineering practices, such as test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. Encourage a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
Identify opportunities for process enhancement, and work with the team to implement appropriate changes. Actively seek feedback and apply lessons learned from previous sprints to drive iterative improvement. Collaboration and Communication: Facilitate meetings to promote understanding, alignment, and decision-making. Act as a mediator in resolving conflicts and promoting a positive team culture. Drive timely completion of projects through meeting project milestones and effective management of risk. Foster effective communication and collaboration between the entire project team, key stakeholders, and other cross-functional team members. Leverage influencing skills to gain buy-in and commitments from all stakeholders. Conflict management. Highly skilled at developing trust and rapport and re-establishing any breaks in rapport rapidly. Requirements • Deep understanding of Agile principles, practices, and frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
• Ability and desire to influence not only your team but larger company systems.
• Ability to lead and inspire teams, promote collaboration, and resolve conflicts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on driving results and delivering high-quality products.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities, work well under pressure, and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Familiarity with software development methodologies, tools, and technologies.
• Proficiency in using project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Office 365).
Preferred Experience:
• 3+ years experience working as a Scrum Master on software development teams.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent is highly desirable.
Benefits and compensation Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits. 100% of salary registered at IMSS (as it should be). 15-day Christmas Bonus. Retirement housing and social security are included within the 100% registry of IMSS. Private Minor and Major Medical Insurance with $20,000,000 MXN in coverage for you and your direct family. Life and Disability Insurance (Up to $2,000,000 MXN). 12 vacation days since the first year of employment. Gym membership sponsorship for yourself and your significant other (with Indefinite Contract). Savings Fund with a 100% company-match policy for employees with an indefinite contract, capped at 13% of salary or 1.3 UMA, as permitted by Mexican law. Personal Savings Plan (Caja de Ahorro) set up by the company. Ability to work remotely. Medical Travel insurance for any emergency while abroad for you and your family. Great work environment / relaxed atmosphere. Increased benefits as more people join our company. About Lexipol At Lexipol, our mission is to create safer communities and empower the individuals on the front lines with market-leading content and technology.
Our top-notch team works closely with law enforcement, fire, EMS, corrections, and local government professionals to tailor our solutions to better address today's challenges and keep first responders coming home safely at the end of each shift.
Working at Lexipol means making a difference – day in and day out.
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