Offer summary

Qualifications:

Prior experience leading a scrum team, Excellent knowledge of the scrum framework and Agile practices, Strong communication and leadership skills, Ability to manage people and projects effectively..

Key responsabilities:

Lead multiple scrum teams using Agile methodology

Facilitate scrum meetings and decision-making processes

Remove impediments and protect teams from distractions

Assist product owner with product backlog and team retrospectives.

Job description

Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and their constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers by meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn.

Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers powering an unmatched Subscriber Network that uses our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Scrum Master at Granicus works to ensure that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentor and motivate teams to improve processes, facilitate meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminate team impediments.

You should have excellent knowledge of the scrum framework, with all its artifacts and techniques. You’ll also need the ability to coordinate people and projects (occasionally facilitating changes) with your mind set on deliverables. If you’re a strong communicator, a capable leader and you’re invested in Agile frameworks, we’d like to meet you.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

Lead 2 or more scrum teams using Agile methodology and scrum practices

Helping the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction

Schedule & facilitate scrum meetings

Remove impediments, protect the team from external distractions and minimize disruptions so the team can deliver on commitments

Help with quarterly QBR

Create and maintain confluence pages for teams

Resolve conflicts and issues that occur

Help product owner with product backlog

Help the team’s retrospect and improve

WHO YOU ARE

You have prior experience leading a scrum team

You have prior experience with facilitating PI Planning

You have excellent people and project management skills

You can analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict

You are knowledgeable in techniques to fill in gaps in the scrum

You have experience with successful Agile techniques

You are a simple, clear, and consistent communicator with strong leadership skills

You can adapt to a changing environment

Security and Privacy Requirements

Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.

Responsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking all required privacy training in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies.

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