Scrum Master

Budapest (3 Home Office / week)

gross 35-40 EUR/ hour

Your new company

Our client is an American agricultural machinery manufacturer. They design, produce and sell tractors, combines, foragers, hay tools, self-propelled sprayers, smart farming technologies, seeding and tillage equipment.

Your new role

The Scrum Master´s main responsibilities are to generate flow, ensure fast feedback (minimize WIP) and strive for relentless team improvements.

• Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood and modeled in project plans and timelines
• Identify, document, and publish risks and issues related to the overall program and to define resolution paths where required
• Resolve cross-team impediments and blocking issues
• Collect and consolidate cross-team status for delivery to stakeholders and executive management
• Schedule and conduct meetings and ceremonies in accordance with best practices for Agile/Scrum software development
• Responsible for building team collaboration, commitment towards achieving sprint objectives and viewing team needs above everything else
• Continuously work to improve team performance and productivity
• Encourage team accountability, self-organization, and empowerment
• Share common Agile practices
• Promote and support the development team’s automated processes
• Facilitate Retrospectives which generate new ideas for process improvement
• Maintain relevant metrics that guide the development team to more efficient processes in their work and in satisfying their Product Owner and stakeholders
• Maintain effective information radiators that aid transparency and encourage clear communication between the development team, the Product Owner, and stakeholders
• Active participant in the local scrum chapters to share and learn new agile concepts

What you'll need to succeed

• 3+ years of experience in software development projects
• Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict
• Knowledgeable in techniques to fill in gaps in the scrum
• Ability to determine what is scrum and what is not
• Experience with successful Agile techniques
• Ability to work with and lead a team
• Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
• Knowledge of project management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps) advantageous
• Fluent English

Advantages (optional):

• Ability to adapt to a changing environment
• Self-motivation and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction
• Experience in DevOps and SAFe practices beneficial