Scrum Master

# Responsibilities:
- Coaching the Team
- Guiding the team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers;
- Guiding the team on self-organising to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks;
- Protect the Team from External Interference and help them on communication:
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment;
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving;
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work;
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information;
- Work closely with Product Owner:
- On different client’s projects from the beginning planning to production implementation;
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog;
- Working closely with PO to share Sprint goal to team and help each stakeholder involved into the feature discussion;
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example;

# Required Skills/Experience:
- At least 5 years working experience;
- Experience is playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory;
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.);

# Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus):
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
- Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games;
- Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team;
- The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: various Burndown technologies, many Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.);
- Strong written and oral communication in English;
- Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills;
- Could speak both Mandarin and English;