Scrum Master

DISH is a Fortune 200 company with more than $15 billion in annual revenue that continues to redefine the communications industry. Our legacy is innovation and a willingness to challenge the status quo, including reinventing ourselves. We disrupted the pay-TV industry in the mid-90s with the launch of the DISH satellite TV service, taking on some of the largest U.S. corporations in the process, and grew to be the fourth-largest pay-TV provider. We are doing it again with the first live, internet-delivered TV service – Sling TV – that bucks traditional pay-TV norms and gives consumers a truly new way to access and watch television.

Now we have our sights set on upending the wireless industry and unseating the entrenched incumbent carriers.

We are driven by curiosity, pride, adventure, and a desire to win – it’s in our DNA. We’re looking for people with boundless energy, intelligence, and an overwhelming need to achieve to join our team as we embark on the next chapter of our story.

Opportunity is here. We are DISH.

A successful Scrum Master will have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of experience working in an Agile software development environment or an equivalent combination of experience or education
  
• At least 2 years of experience leading Agile Scrum teams as a Scrum Master
  
• Desire and ability to work within a highly collaborative environment.
• Strong communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is a plus.
• Familiarity with the Scaled Agile Framework is a plus
• Experience training teams and large groups is a plus.
• Expertise with agile engineering practices such as Continuous Integration, Automated Testing, Test-Driven Development and Pair Programming is a plus.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented environment.
• Possess the ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients and other departments. 

Dish Technologies Digital Broadcast Centers provide advanced online video delivery and satellite video delivery for broadcasters and pay-TV operators across North America. Through our network of uplink centers, these world-class facilities are also home to Dish’s 24/7 traffic, technical operations, and satellite access centers. This team is comprised of experienced professionals dedicated to providing customers with an unparalleled level of service delivering content and programming to over 16 million subscribers every day.

We are looking for an innovative and passionate Scrum Master to lead an agile team of software engineers and bring value to market quickly. Working with us means you’ll lead high performing teams on a variety of software development products, apply your broad-base technical, client-facing and industry expertise to create practical and innovative solutions. This position is an opportunity to help drive complex features that will propel the digital TV and movie delivery industry into the future. If you have a sense of adventure, take pride in leading great software development, and strive to build the best products on the planet, we want you on our team here at Dish.

Primary responsibilities fall into the following categories:

• Lead the Daily Scrum and other key ceremonies for an Agile Development Team of approximately 7 engineers
• Educate the team by bringing leadership and expertise on tools and techniques to help the team absorb scrum practices, principles, values and roles.
• Guide and coach both your teams and the organization on scrum practices (guard and support the scrum process).
• Be a leader and facilitator of team meetings, team decision-making and team maturity.
• Lead retrospective discussions using both metrics and subjectivity to help continuously improve our team, product, quality, delivery, responsiveness and innovation
• Remove internal and external impediments for the team as their servant leader
• Relentlessly nurture team dynamics, health, morale, performance, agreements, and culture
• Act as a lean and agile champion to help promote agility throughout the department and organization
• Help manage risks and remove dependencies
• Promote industry best practices in agile, leadership and development practices
• Communication: Effectively communicates using written, oral, non-verbal and active listening skills.
• Clearly present ideas and concepts to foster understanding, let others share productive ideas and engage productively in difficult conversations while upholding our company values and vision.
• Actively guide the team to deliver client committed deadlines.
• Travel periodically to meet with customers, stakeholders, and interfacing teams

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