Scrum Master

What you will do

• Promote transparent communication/act a communication facilitator;
• Act as a safeguard for the team;
• Follow-up on process implementation;
• Ensure process adoption;
• Identify improvement areas and approaches and propose solutions;
• Help the team continuously make progress on the project by making sure each person is working on the right tasks;
• Help the team agree on what they can achieve during each development sprint;
• Mitigate potential conflict, act as a mediator; 
• Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings, if needed (nice to have);
• Remove impediments;
• Coach the team in agile/scrum practices (nice to have);
• Ensure correct use of scrum process (nice to have).

What you need for this role

• Excellent communication skills;
• Excellent listener;
• Empathy;
• Negotiation skills;
• Conflict facilitation skills;
• Excellent client-facing communication skills;
• Meeting management skills;
• Organizational skills;
• Time management skills;
• Analytical skills;
• Critical thinking;
• Ability to work under pressure;
• Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand his team needs;
• Familiar/previously worked with Agile methodology, preferably Scrum (nice to have);
• Understand the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development (nice to have);
• Knowledge about other methodologies other than Agile-Scrum, so that he can explain other methodologies to motivate his team (nice to have);
• Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories, etc (nice to have).