Job description

Responsibilities include: • Act as a servant leader to the scrum team • Removing impediments for the scrum team to ensure maximum productivity • Effectively organizing and running scrum ceremonies including daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective, and backlog refinement • Coaching teams in Agile principles and practices • Becoming an active participant in Agile communities of practice by sharing Agile expertise and best practices • Tracking and articulating organizational impediments to program leaders • Building a solid working relationship with the product owner team • Identifying, managing and (when appropriate) escalating cross-team dependencies, challenges and issues • Tracking sprint and scrum team progress through burn-down charts, Kanban and other metrics • Facilitating retrospective sessions and introduce new and different retrospective techniques to keep team members engaged • Managing workflow and updates in Jira • Bachelor's Degree in computer science, business or related field • 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master • Extensive knowledge of technology concepts, strategies, methodologies, architectures and technical standards • Experience with Agile at scale in large enterprise organizations • Scrum Alliance or Scrum.org certifications • Superior mentoring, analytical, problem solving, and communication skills • Experience with Jira and Agile Craft a plus • Experience with SAFe, certification a plus • Experience working with distributed teams a plus This is a long term contract opportunity

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Must-haves

Act as a servant leader to the scrum team
Removing impediments for the scrum team to ensure maximum productivity
Effectively organizing and running scrum ceremonies including daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective, and backlog refinement
Coaching teams in Agile principles and practices
Becoming an active participant in Agile communities of practice by sharing Agile expertise and best practices
Tracking and articulating organizational impediments to program leaders
Building a solid working relationship with the product owner team
Identifying, managing and (when appropriate) escalating cross-team dependencies, challenges and issues
Tracking sprint and scrum team progress through burn-down charts, Kanban and other metrics
Facilitating retrospective sessions and introduce new and different retrospective techniques to keep team members engaged
Managing workflow and updates in Jira
Bachelor's Degree in computer science, business or related field
3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
Extensive knowledge of technology concepts, strategies, methodologies, architectures and technical standards
Experience with Agile at scale in large enterprise organizations
Scrum Alliance or Scrum.org certifications
Superior mentoring, analytical, problem solving, and communication skills
This is a long term contract opportunity

Nice-to-haves

Experience with Jira and Agile Craft a plus
Experience with SAFe, certification a plus
Experience working with distributed teams a plus

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