Job Description
Hybrid role in Smithfield RI. Our financial services client is seeking an Agile Scrum Master.
Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $53 - $63 / hr. w2
Responsibilities:
- As part of a highly collaborative squad you will advise, mentor, coach and train on performance against agile values, practices and processes to accelerate squad value delivery.
- In partnership with the squad leader you will maintain a backlog, help to remove impediments and facilitate agile ceremonies such as the daily stand up, sprint planning, backlog refinement and retrospectives.
- You will have responsibility for release management coordination and participate in scaling ceremonies and activities as you manage interdependencies across squads and product areas.
- You will examine and drive team performance through metrics and find opportunities for the squad to fully realize the benefits of working in an agile structure.
- You will support the squad by engaging with all team members and product area leadership to reinforce and embed an agile approach and principles into the day-to-day work. This role often requires coordinating the efforts of multiple systems teams to deliver a seamlessly integrated solution to our customers.
- Working collaboratively with Workplace Investing product partners and chapter leaders to enable delivery of the squad's mission through well-executed sprints
- Accelerating overall squad performance, efficiency and value delivered by engaging within and across squads to find opportunities to improve agile maturity and metrics, and providing coaching, training and resources
- Maintaining and updating squad performance metrics (e.g., burn-down charts) and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the squad members and transparency to other partners
- Managing, coordinating logistics for and participating in agile events (e.g., backlog prioritization, sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives and as appropriate, scrum of scrum masters)
- Supporting adoption, and consistent use of enabling tools (e.g., Jira, Mural, MS Teams)
- Organizing and presenting ideas and information logically and concisely to a variety of audiences, including both technical and non-technical individuals
- Working closely with the squad leader to plan and execute on the highest priority work as per the product roadmap
- Handling multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
- Coaching and mentoring complex squads, regardless of size.
- Participating in a community of practice and providing scrum knowledge to members of your product area and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement within the product area.
Experience Requirements:
- Experience working with or in agile teams with good understanding of agile practices
- Experience working with agile teams delivering technical solutions
- Advanced Jira experience and knowledge of agile practices (Kanban, Lean)
- Bachelor’s degree/undergraduate degree/equivalent required
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) required
- Effectively coach and mentor
- You possess excellent communication and people-interaction skills and can rapidly build trust and positively influence others at all levels of the organization
- You demonstrate a continuous improvement approach
- You are a proven change agent capable of coaching agile practices to teams and individuals from across different functions, experiences, and geographies as they work through new and unfamiliar situations
- You are an effective facilitator and can brainstorm with the team to generate solutions that address challenges and roadblocks to accelerating value delivery
- You are intellectually curious and passionate about learning new skills, and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching
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