Senior Scrum Master

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox Corporation

Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News, FOX Sports, the Fox Network, and the FOX Television Stations. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

JOB DESCRIPTION

FOX is seeking a Senior Scrum Master!

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Scrum Master role helps scrum teams reach peak productivity by facilitating Scrum ceremonies, assisting the Product Owner with maintaining a healthy and actionable backlog, identifying and resolving roadblocks, tracking progress, and identifying and acting on opportunities for continuous improvement. The Scrum Master also plays a critical role in the adoption of Scrum, SAFe, and other agile development practices by the organization, and being able to evangelize best practices and collaborate with other team members as to the methodology. 

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Advice and Guidance 

• Calendar and facilitate critical agile ceremonies, as needed, or participate and provide guidance
• Identify, communicate and work to resolve bottlenecks
• Recommend opportunities to improve velocity and team morale
• Actively participate in program-level ceremonies to be able to ensure success in delivery of value in alignment with portfolio and program level priorities

Continuous Improvement 

• Support and enable teams to become high performing
• Follow direction from the agile adoption strategy and rollout plans for teams across the organization
• Develop and evaluate team metrics and make recommendations in improving agile processes and metrics
• Capture feedback to foster collaboration and emotional intelligence across the organization
• Develop and evolve agile training materials and methods

Delivery 

• Ensure continuous improvement of teams
• Ensure the Software Delivery Process is followed
• Manage capacity and throughput of team(s) to deliver value through use of metrics, best practices, and team working agreements
• Manage alignment of sprint goals to delivery timelines as part of sprints, release trains, and program-level commitments
• Facilitate adoption of agile methods and frameworks to increase accountability and effectiveness of delivery teams across the organization
• Assist with maintenance of properly groomed backlogs
• Assist with prioritizing technical debt 
• Assist with ensuring that a sustainable pace of work is maintained 
• Assist with ensuring that information in JIRA is accurate and up-to-date so burndown and other charts can be produced at any time 
• Assist with ensuring completion of sprint commitments
• Support the Tech Lead and Product Manager with removing impediments for delivery teams 

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