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Location Syracuse, NY
Syracuse, New York

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Posting Job Title:Scrum Master, Web Apps.
Requisition #: 164402BR
Posting Location: Syracuse, NY, US
Area of Interest:Information Technology Services
Position Type: Full Time

Posting Job Description

NaviSite, A Time Warner Cable Company, is the premier provider of complex hosting, application management, and managed Cloud services for the enterprise market. It provides customized and scalable solutions, leveraging its industry leading hosting infrastructure; full suite of managed services; and custom and packaged application life cycle management expertise. More than 1,500 customers depend on NaviSite for customized solutions delivered through its global footprint, comprised of state-of-the-art data centers supported by approximately 650 professionals. For more information, please visit www.navisite.com .
The NaviCloud Sphere team is a diverse group of software developers responsible for maintaining and enhancing one of NaviSite ' s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) products. The team is an adaptable, ambitious group of individuals who are utilizing Scrum to develop software within a dynamic business environment. The team currently has an opening for a new Scrum Master. The right person for this role will focus on guiding the team towards improving the way they work, while maintaining a sustainable pace and positive work environment.

Primary Duties:

- Strongly serving and supporting the Product Owner and Development Team, using a servant leadership style and leading by example.

- Guiding and coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum principles and how to get the most out of self-organization

- Removing impediments that are impacting the team and/or organization

- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving and forward momentum.

- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

- Facilitating the Scrum rituals: daily stand-up, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives, sprint planning

- Maintaining relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing

- Supporting the Product Owner with refining and managing the product backlog, including facilitating regular backlog grooming meetings with the team

- Ensuring effective cross-team coordination

- Sheltering the team from external interferences

Required Skills/Experience:

- Experience as a collaborative team leader

- Knowledge of Agile Techniques and Practices

- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

- Excellent communication and mentoring skills

- Willingness to continually learn new patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps in Scrum (ie. Numerous Burndown techniques, retrospective techniques, approaches for handling bugs, etc)

Preferred Skills/Experience: (Any of these is a plus)

- First level Scrum Master certification (PSM 1, CSM)

- Experience as a Scrum Master for a software development team

- Background in software development or understanding of software development processes and procedures

- Understanding of fundamentals of iterative development (experience on a Scrum team would be ideal)

- Understanding of the value of commitments to delivery made by a Scrum team

- Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence



FCC Unit_TWC: NAVIS
Controlling Establishment ID: 00809 - Syracuse Elwood Davis Rd

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