Excellent oral, written and collaborative communication skills.
Strong knowledge of IT business processes and practices.
Ability to flex approach based on the needs of the team.
Experience executing Scrum and Kanban based methodologies in large complex environments.
Minimum 5 years of experience in IT with 2 years working as an Agile Practitioner.
Facilitate prioritization of security and compliance work as part of the release cycle and contribute towards a stronger security-focused culture.
Manage team forecasts to enable portfolio discussions around project capacity.
Support release readiness activities in preparation for production deployments.
Work with business stakeholders to manage expectations around commitments, priorities and schedule changes.
Facilitate prioritization decisions and trade off discussions between technology and business stakeholders.
Lead project estimation and planning activities at the team level.
Help identify and resolve impediments or roadblocks within the team.
Contribute to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
Manage and support Scrum based activities - sprint planning, daily scrum, backlog refinement and retrospectives.
The role supports key planning and execution activities that are crucial to managing the project release cycle and enabling prioritization decisions between business stakeholders and application teams. The Sr Release Manager/Scrum Master is responsible for leading Scrum based ceremonies across multiple development teams and promoting adoption of SDLC best practices.