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Scrum Master
Fortune 100 Financial Services Client
Location: Iselin, NJ, New York, or Charlotte, NC (hybrid schedule, 3 days a week onsite)
Long Term Contract
Pay Rate: $70-$75 /hr. on W2 with benefits
Responsibilities
- 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
Salary : $70 - $75