Job Title: Scrum Master
Job Location: Woodland Hills, CA
Job Type: Full Time
Job Description:
Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services.
Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to build and deploy new, cutting-edge features for our Shopify storefronts and consumer facing websites as well as interfaces to eCommerce and consumer marketing systems and platforms.
Required Skills:
Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e., Scrum, Kanban) and understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
Solid knowledge of all web technologies, especially web services, web applications, Service Oriented Architectures, and network/web protocols
Experience in software development in following programming languages Javascript, React, Node.js, PHP, or other languages, Shopify a plus
In depth understanding of Shopify or general eCommerce platforms and consumer marketing technologies
Experience with authentication and authorization technologies a plus
Working knowledge of understanding penetration frameworks and fuzzers
Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
Experience with performance testing
Desired knowledge:
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
Demonstrated excellent technical writing skills and project/program management experience
Multiple language skills a plus.
Interested candidates can send their updated resumes at jobs@global-itech.com