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  Req#: 1402
  Job Title: Scrum Master
  
  Department: Technology
  
  Reports to: Chief Technology Officer
  
  FLSA Status: Exempt
  
  Location: Remote Position
  
  At BBQGUYS.com, we believe life is better in your backyard. Our eclectic team is up to any task (and happy to celebrate when it's done). As outdoor living experts, we are the only brand that offers everything: grills, outdoor kitchens, furniture & beyond. We are obsessed with top-of-the-line quality and committed to customer service. We take out the guesswork by offering complimentary 3D design services custom-tailored to our customer's preferences and style. Join us on our mission to deliver the very best of outdoor living.
  
  Role Description:
  
  The Scrum Master serves to facilitate the agile framework and practice called scrum to the larger engineering team at bbqguys.com. The Scrum Master is responsible for educating and introducing best practices to the team and drives key ceremonies (or activities) like sprint planning, retrospectives, and more. The Scrum Master helps to ensure that we are working through sprint cycles in an effective and streamlined manner while helping the teams embrace and evolve to new ways of working. The scrum master role will interface directly with engineering and quality assurance managers, product managers, and other individual contributors regularly and needs to be able to influence positive momentum and change without direct authority.
  
  What You'll Do:
  
  Key Responsibilities:
  
  • Coordinates and drives the regular 'ceremonies' that take place in the agile framework - including but not limited to sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives.
  • Facilitates the adoption of agile practices and methodologies within the technology team.
  • Educates and coaches the team on best practices related to scrum or software development lifecycles.
  • Encourages cross-collaboration within the technology organization to help ensure that the team is not working in silos.
  • Identifies areas of opportunity within the software development lifecycle to improve team performance, velocity and throughput
  • Assists in removing team-level impediments and resolve conflicts
  • Partners closely with product management to ensure that sprint cycles are adhering to the overall enterprise roadmap
  • Ensures the team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery through the regular sprint cycles
  • Assists product management with grooming and backlog refinement practices to ensure that tickets are appropriately sized and estimated with the engineering team before a sprint cycle takes place
  • Helps to define team norms and values that the team can rely on for consistent 'ways of working'.
  
  
  What You'll Have:
  
  
  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  
  
  • Ability to coordinate high work volume and pressing time requirements.
  • Ability to make sound business decisions, with demonstrated ability to gather and analyze information necessary to formulate recommendations in diverse situations.
  • Effective time management, multi-tasking, and problem-solving skills.
  • Proficient PC skills required.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills required.
  • Ability to work both independently and as a team member, while using discretion in decision making and sound judgment in problem solving.
  
  
  Education and/or Experience:
  
  
  • Atlassian Experience required (JIRA, Confluence)
  • Bachelor's degree and strong academic credentials required.
  • Minimum of 5 years scrum master experience required.
  • Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification preferred.
  
  
  Physical Demands:
  
  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  
  
  • Sitting for extended periods of time, including, without limitation, in office settings, and during air travel.
  • Computer use, with or without adaptable software

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