Scrum Master
Great long-term opportunity with an industry leader that is seeing their business accelerate!
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
- Partners with product owners, product managers and senior leaders to ensure that business objectives are understood in the features and user stories, epics and roadmap to be developed
- Facilitate sprint planning, release planning, daily stand-ups, stakeholder demos, and sprint retrospectives
- Identify and manage dependencies with other internal or external teams
- Provide metrics and team health status to senior management
- Mentor on and ensure team members incorporate Agile/Scrum/Kanban best practices
- Identifies, tracks, reports and facilitates the resolution of issues and risks Implements and understands change practices, DevOps practices and processes
- Create and track metrics of team progress, productivity and use the metrics to help the team get better. (i.e. velocity, volatility, predictability and cycle time)
- Provide support to the team using servant leadership and leading by example
- Build a trusting and safe environment for the teams to express themselves freely, collaborate and experiment
- Train team on Agile principles and practices.
This is a 6-month contract opportunity in Atlanta with potential to extend. Work in-office on a flexible, hybrid schedule of 3 days per week (Tues/Weds with one additional day of choice).
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- 3+ years of Scrum Master experience within an enterprise company
- Strong knowledge of Agile Scrum principles and practices
- Experience working with offshore teams
- Experience working with product and technology teams
- Jira/Rally
- CSM
- SAFe certification
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Must be authorized to work in the US. Sponsorships are not available.
