Position: Contractor, Scrum Master

Location: Broomfield, Co

Revolutionizing business though data science and analytics, Alteryx offers an end-to-end analytics platform which empowers data analysts and scientists alike to break data barriers, deliver insights, and experience the thrill of getting to the answer faster. Organizations all over the world rely on Alteryx daily to deliver actionable insights. 
Join our team of passionate and hard-working associates, and help make a difference in people’s lives by creating software that enables business users to solve problems using data that were previously thought to be unsolvable, save them days, weeks and months of mundane data prep and blending, and help them truly love their jobs again.

Overview:The Scrum Master’s primary responsibilities are that of agile process facilitator to delivery teams, and of coach and mentor to the individuals on those teams. They should be familiar with coaching and facilitation skills, have a broad understanding of software development processes, and experience with both Scrum and Kanban. The ideal candidate fully embraces the “coaching stance.” They have a passion for continuous, metrics-driven improvement, and an affinity for life-long learning. 

This is an initial six month contract position.
Responsibilities include:

• Act as facilitator to 2-3 Scrum or Kanban teams of various agile maturity levels. Focus on guiding the teams towards self-management and continuous improvement in implementing the principles of agile and lean software development.
• Assist teams to define team agreements and hold them accountable to them.
• Facilitate team-level agile ceremonies (sprint planning meetings, backlog refinement meetings, retrospectives, sprint demos, sprint reviews) and other relevant meetings or working sessions.
• Participate in program-level events such as demo, program review, etc..
• Assist in facilitating large-scale, program-level meetings: big room planning, big room retrospectives, etc. 
• Ensure cross-team coordination via dependency tracking both on and off line. 
• Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal
• Aid the teams in reporting relevant metrics to help them both diagnose opportunities for improvement and report out the status of their deliverables. 
• Create information radiators that allow the team and organization to communicate and visualize their work.
• Manage CA Technologies (Rally) software.
• Contribute as a member of the Agile Team consisting of other Scrum Masters to develop and implement program level initiatives and form a community of practice.
• Actively contribute to Alteryx’s goal of being an Agile center of excellence

 Qualifications, Skills & Education:

• 1+ years of experience as Agile Coach or Scrum Master.
• Excellent facilitation and coaching skills.
• Deep knowledge of Agile framework, Lean, Kanban and Scrum process/practices.
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or PMI Agile Certified Professional.
• 4 year degree (Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration or related functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.
• Demonstrated expectation management, influencing and conflict resolution skills.
• Proven ability to collaborate across various groups, build relationships and manage effectively in a matrix organization.
• Strong skills in planning, resource planning, and risk assessment. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.