Senior Scrum Master

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🌵 Arizona, California, +1 more states – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $112.4k - $149.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚡️ Scrum Master + Agile Coach

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First American

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1889

🏠 Real Estate

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

Real Estate • Finance • Enterprise

First American is a historical company that has been operating since 1889, evolving into a $9 billion organization with over 20,000 employees and more than 700 offices worldwide. The company provides a range of products and services that assist homebuyers, sellers, businesses, and investors in the real estate market. With a strong focus on employee engagement and culture, First American emphasizes innovation, technology, and community involvement, driving transformation within the real estate industry.

📋 Description

• Facilitate and drive effective Scrum and Agile events, including daily sync, backlog refinement, iteration planning, iteration reviews, and retrospectives • Ensure events are purposeful, well prepared, inclusive, and result in clear decisions, actions, or improvement commitments • Coach teams in Scrum, Kanban, Lean-Agile principles, self-organization, collaboration, continuous improvement, and effective delivery practices • Build a safe, trusting, and inclusive team environment • Partner with Product Owners to improve backlog health, prioritization, refinement, sprint readiness, PI Planning readiness, and alignment to customer and business outcomes • Help teams establish meaningful sprint goals and improve delivery predictability, quality, flow, and accountability • Identify, understand, track, escalate, and help remove impediments, risks, dependencies, and organizational barriers • Lead structured problem-solving conversations addressing delivery challenges • Protect the team from unnecessary interruptions while maintaining transparency with stakeholders and leadership • Use Jira and other Agile tools to maintain accurate delivery information and communicate metrics, trends, risks, dependencies, and progress • Use delivery metrics to support transparency, learning, and improvement • Facilitate retrospectives and coach teams to follow through on improvement actions • Coordinate with engineering leaders, managers, architects, business partners, and other Scrum Masters to resolve cross-team challenges • Represent the team in Coach Sync, ART Sync, and other ART-level coordination events • Help teams prepare for and participate effectively in PI Planning • Collaborate with Senior Scrum Masters and Agile practitioners to share effective practices and improve team and organizational agility • Contribute to the Lean-Agile Office’s business agility roadmap and evolution of First American Trust’s Agile operating model • Demonstrate servant leadership, situational awareness, emotional intelligence, adaptability, and a growth mindset

🎯 Requirements

• 5-7 years of experience applying Scrum and Agile methods as scrum master of an agile software delivery team • Prefer 1-2 years of experience in the Scaled Agile Framework • Experience coaching Agile teams across different team sizes, levels of maturity, and delivery contexts • Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean-Agile principles, and continuous improvement practices • Demonstrated ability to lead Scrum events and create environments that promote participation, accountability, transparency, and psychological safety • Experience coaching teams and Product Owners on Agile practices, backlog health, collaboration, and delivery effectiveness • Demonstrated ability to identify, escalate, and resolve impediments, delivery risks, dependencies, and organizational barriers • Strong understanding of backlog management, prioritization, refinement, sprint planning, sprint goals, and outcome-based delivery • Moderate to expert-level experience with Jira or comparable Agile delivery tools • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical audiences and senior leadership • Strong facilitation, conflict-resolution, negotiation, stakeholder-management, and problem-solving skills • Ability to influence without formal authority and work effectively in a cross-functional, fast-moving environment • Certified ScrumMaster or SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification is required • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, or related fields

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401k • PTO/paid sick leave • Employee stock purchase plan • Inclusive workplace culture