REMOTE ROLE: Agile Coach/Scrum Trainer

The Fountain Group; Santa Clara (CA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A nationwide staffing firm is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to train teams on Agile/Scrum practices. The candidate must be a Certified Scrum Trainer with over 3 years of experience and adept in using tools like Jira. The role is remote, offering $70-74/hour with benefits after a qualification period.

Benefits

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Trainer or Certified Enterprise Coach.
• More than 3 years as a Scrum Master.
• More than 1 year training on Scrum/Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Train team on Agile/Scrum practices.
• Standardize Scrum practices.
• Set up processes and dashboards in Jira.
• Teach daily standups.
• Guide team on self-organizing.
• Facilitate communication and conflict resolution.

Skills

Certified Scrum Trainer

Agile methodologies

Excellent communication skills

Mentoring

Coaching

Tools

Jira

Job description

PAY: $70-74/hour W2. Our company offers our consultants a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance.
100% remote role
W2 Candidates only

Overview

This role will involve training the team on using Agile/Scrum practices and implementing Scrum based practices within multiple IT projects.

Will help standardize Scrum practice by assessing the Scrum maturity of the team, organizing and coaching the team to higher level of maturity

Will be responsible for setting up processes, dashboards, and stories in Jira

Will teach teams on daily standups, building appropriate engineering metrics like burn down charts, velocity metrics, resource capacity metrics, etc. and standardize them across IT Supporting and educating the Product Owner especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog

Will be guiding the team on self organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in Agile/Scrum frameworks

Responsible for assisting with internal communication, improving transparency, and radiating information, facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution and removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments

Responsibilities

• This role will involve training the team on using Agile/Scrum practices and implementing Scrum based practices within multiple IT projects.
• Will help standardize Scrum practice by assessing the Scrum maturity of the team, organizing and coaching the team to higher level of maturity
• Will be responsible for setting up processes, dashboards, and stories in Jira
• Will teach teams on daily standups, building appropriate engineering metrics like burn down charts, velocity metrics, resource capacity metrics, etc. and standardize them across IT Supporting and educating the Product Owner especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Will be guiding the team on self organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in Agile/Scrum frameworks
• Responsible for assisting with internal communication, improving transparency, and radiating information, facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution and removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments

Requirements

• Candidate should be a Certified Scrum Trainer or a Certified Enterprise Coach Experience playing the Scrum Master role as a practitioner for more than 3 years.
• Must have more than 1 year of experience in training companies successfully on the migration to Scrum/Agile based practices
• Should have knowledge of numerous and well documented patterns, techniques, and best practices for e.g., Burndown techniques, retrospective formats, bug tracking, story writing, epic writing, velocity metrics, etc.
• Excellent knowledge of various agile approaches like XP, Kanban, FDD, etc.
• Excellent communication, mentoring and influencing skills

Who We Are

The Fountain Group is a nationwide staffing firm with over 80 Fortune 100-500 clients. Since 2001, TFG has maintained a consistent standard of excellence, and our work is broadly recognized every year through numerous industry performance awards. Our success is a team effort.

Browse our website below for additional information on our company.

The Fountain Group

4505 Woodland Corporate Blvd, Tampa, FL 33614

“We work in Life Sciences, Clinical, Engineering, IT, and more. Above all, we specialize in people.”