Scrum Master; Houston, TX

Scrum Master - Intermediate

Need only local to Houston, TX |
Oil & Gas mandatory

Description: Scrum Master for a Houston-based team supporting Windows Active Directory, PKI certificate servers, and other elements of the Client tier 0 security environment.

• Encourages team to make and meet execution commitments and removes impediments to the team.
• Encourages the team to establish and adhere to quality standards.
• Facilitates team ceremonies – Stand‑ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospectives to guide work execution & Continuous Improvement.
• Implements effective backlog management; keeps the status of all work up to date in the backlog through grooming to generate standard metrics to improve team performance.
• Collaborates with the Staff Development Manager, Product Owner, System Architect and Delivery Team to establish and update Working Agreements on execution plans, priorities, capacity, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done.
• Collaborates with Release Train Engineer in Scrum of Scrums and helps facilitate PI planning.
• Facilitates skills assessment activities (i.e. “Skills Bingo”) to ensure team is prepared for work commitments.
• Ensures Azure Dev Ops (ADO) Core Fields are completed.
• Incident Management – keeps track of aging tickets and helps team resolve incidents timely.
• Coordinates team‑building activities.

• 3-5 years’ experience leading Agile teams
• Proficiency with MS Azure Dev Ops Boards

• SAFe Scrum Master or Advanced Scrum Master Certification
• Infrastructure support or Windows engineering background

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This is a contract position