Brooksource is in search of a Scrum Master for our Fortune 100 Financial Services company. You will be responsible for the following components:
Job Description:
Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Scrum or Agile.
Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale, or longer-term Scrum Master challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.
Understanding of how to effectively partner/ collaborate with key stakeholders to mature the acceptance of accelerated delivery.
Demonstrated reasonable level of technical and business understanding to optimize credibility with teams and managers.
Demonstrable experience and expertise driving engineering practices that includes not limited to TDD, BDD, Pair programming, CI/CD, Automation deployment.
Rigorous focus driving Unit testing and functional automation as part of DOD
Demonstrated understanding and practical experience with JIRA (and JIRA Portfolio)
Required Qualifications
5+ years of Scrum or Agile experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
Scrum Master Certification
Understanding of Alignment of Agile practices
Experience working in Compliance.
Excellent communication and ability to work across different levels and stakeholders.
Experience leading scrum or/and Kanban teams.
People Skills
Desired Skills:
Scaled Agile (SAFe, Scrum at Scale, LESS) experience.
Change Management (PROSCI, Kotter, etc)
Good understanding of Lean engineering practices
Guide the teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
Oversee systemic impediments to team agility and guide the teams on methods to escalate.