Scrum Master to advise, mentor, coach and train on performance against agile values, practices and processes to accelerate squad value delivery.
You will work closely with squad members to blend deep scrum expertise with a passion for mentoring and coaching, and constant improvement.
In partnership with the squad leader you will maintain a backlog, help to remove impediments, and facilitate agile ceremonies such as the daily scrum meeting, sprint planning, backlog refinement and retrospectives.
You will 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.
Responsibilities:
Work collaboratively with squad and chapter leaders to enable delivery of the squad's mission through well-executed sprints
Accelerate 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
Maintain and update 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
Manage and coordinate logistics for participation in agile events (e.g., backlog prioritization, sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives and as appropriate, scrum of scrum masters)
Support adoption, and consistent use of enabling tools (e.g., Jira, Miro, MS Teams)
Skills You Bring:
5+ years of Scrum Master experience, across several Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban etc, and driving projects to successful completion
Working experience of using collaboration tools like Miro, Jira and Confluence
Financial services experience preferred
Excellent communication and people-interaction skills that can rapidly build trust and positively influence others at all levels of the organization
Demonstration of a continuous improvement approach
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
Effective facilitator who can brainstorm with the team to generate solutions that address challenges and roadblocks to accelerating value delivery
Intellectually curious and passionate about learning new skills, and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching
** 3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.
This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future.
This client is a US Federal Government contractor and is legally required to hire US Citizens. US Citizens will only be considered for this role.
Due to the nature of the work, a United States Government Clearance is required to be eligible for the position **