Agile Scrum Master/Kanban FlowMaster (on-site)

Nanosoft Consulting Talent Page; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in North Carolina is looking for an Agile Scrum Master/Kanban FlowMaster for a 10-month contract. In this on-site role, you will coach teams on Scrum processes to enable self-organization and accountability. Responsibilities include facilitating Scrum/Kanban events and collaborating with Product Owners for backlog prioritization. Strong experience in Agile practices and tools like JIRA is required. Candidates should also possess excellent organizational and analytical skills to handle multiple projects effectively.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in organization and analytical skills.
• 5+ years of experience implementing Agile values and practices.
• 7+ years with tools like MS Project, Excel, and SharePoint.
• 7+ years working with stakeholders for backlog prioritization.
• 2+ years of experience with setup and monitoring in Jira.

Responsibilities

• Coaching teams on Scrum processes and interactions.
• Facilitating Scrum/Kanban events and removing impediments.
• Leading development planning and execution for products.
• Collaborating with Product Owners and stakeholders.
• Resolving conflicts and ensuring deliverables meet quality.

Skills

Organization skills

Analytical thinking

Agile values and principles

Communication skills

Risk analysis

Education

Certified Scrum Master or Kanban certification

Certified SPC or SAFe agilist

Tools

MS Project

JIRA

SQL Server

Oracle

Job description

Agile Scrum Master/Kanban FlowMaster (on-site)

About the job Agile Scrum Master/Kanban FlowMaster (on-site)

*This is a 10 month contract*

The scrum master or Kanban flow master coaches and advises the teams as well as leadership on desired Scrum processes, procedures, values, and interactions as well as opportunities for continuous improvement. This role strives to enabling teams to become self-organizing, cross-functional, and accountable while assisting them to achieve their Sprint plan by facilitating Scrum/Kanban/SAFe events, removing impediments, and resolving issues outside of the team's control.

Resource will lead the planning and execution of development and delivery of efforts for one or more products to a high standard. Resource must be coachable, and knows how to work with Product Owners, Scrum/flow Masters, Developers, and Stakeholders. This role must execute and follow the Agile transformation strategies laid out by the Agile Transformation Coach and transformation team, work as a good team player to enable understanding, learning and behaviors in an Agile way that drives customer and business value while creating a healthy Agile team culture. This position will be responsible for managing and assisting with requirements gathering, design, development, and implementation of the Cúram/Java web-based software application on n-tier infrastructure, interfacing with various internal and external applications on variety of platforms.

This position will use Agile (Scrum, Kanban) principles to understand and execute resolution of backlog items by working closely with the Product Owner(s) and the project team(s), ensuring deliverables reflect requirements, are effective solutions and are delivered with quality. This position plays a key role in resolving business and team conflicts with active involvement in technical matters, finding gaps and ensuring Product Owner involvement in business decisions and description of the business flow. This role must demonstrate a high level of expertise in understanding and estimating work effort, collaborating to refine prioritized backlogs, facilitating Scrum ceremonies or Kanban events, and related aspects of Agile methodology.

• Strong organization and analytical thinking skills with experience turning complex business needs into user scenarios, flows, and diagrams. (7 years)
• Strong experience understanding and implementing Agile values, principles, and practices (i.e., Kanban, Scrum) based on Team's maturity. (5 years)
• Strong hands on experience with tools like MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint. (7 years)
• Experience working with stakeholders for backlog item prioritization, grooming, and understanding of epic/stories/tasks. (7 years)
• Experience with JIRA to create/enhance dashboards, monitor progress of sprint/work flow, and providing statuses in timely manner. (7 years)
• Demonstrated experience working on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work. (7 years)
• Experience with work breakdown and estimation, sprint planning, monitoring progress and removing impediments to deliver solutions for business needs. (7 years)
• Strong experience using facilitation and communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences. (5 years)
• Strong experience using risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills. (7 years)
• Experience in gaining buy-in and support from stakeholders. (4 years)
• Experience managing, maintaining, and analyzing data to derive meaningful and actionable insights about the portfolio. (4 years)

• Certified Scrum Master or Kanban certification.
• Highly desired.
• Certified SPC or SAFe agilist in SAFe transformation. (Desired)
• Knowledge of DevOps practices. (Desired)
• Experience with setup, tracking, monitoring flow and reporting in Jira. (2 years)
• Experience with JIRA Align and Portfolio Planning. (Desired)
• Hand-on experience in software development and debugging using programming language like Java or .Net/C# etc. (2 years)
• Hands-on SQL experience in relational database like Oracle, SQL Server etc. (2 years)