Scrum Master

Globalquest Staffing Solutions; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Globalquest Staffing Solutions is seeking a Contract Scrum Master for an onsite role in Buffalo, NY, with Friday remote option. The position requires guiding agile teams, facilitating events, removing blockers, and protecting the team from disruption.

You will promote continuous improvement, mentor junior Scrum Masters, and ensure alignment with risk and regulatory standards while collaborating with other Agile Leaders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, plus a minimum of 4 years experience on an agile team and at least 2 years as Scrum Master.
• Experience with scaled agile practices and cross-team coordination.
• Strong proficiency with Jira, Confluence and collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Mentor junior Scrum Masters and coach teams to higher levels of agile performance.
• Identify and remove blockers, coordinate with other teams, and escalate risks when needed.
• Promote continuous improvement through learning opportunities and communities of practice.
• Ensure alignment with risk and regulatory standards within the organization.

Skills

Scaled Agile

Scrum

Kanban

Jira

Miro

Confluence

Data-informed decisioning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Miro

Confluence

Job description

Job Description

Contract Scrum Master position in Buffalo, NY, onsite Monday-Friday and remote on Friday. Pay rate between $65-$70/hr.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, information radiators, etc., to help create high performing teams.
Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the agile teams, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives.
Curate team-level coaching content used to guide teams regarding agile practices.
Facilitate meetings with the teams for purposes of idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving and alignment.
Help the teams gain transparency into their workflow through appropriate use of information radiators.
Address blocking issues that are beyond the teams authority, or require support from other teams, so the teams remain focused on achieving their goals.
Work with other Agile Leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization.
Provide mentorship to less experienced Scrum Masters.
Seek and host a variety of individual and team learning opportunities, such as communities of practice, conferences, meetups, reading and classroom training.
Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
Design, implement, maintain and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Bachelors degree and a minimum of 4 years experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 8 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience.

Skill Set 1: scaled agile, scrum and kanbana team agility foundation basics

Skill Set 2: jira, miro, confluence and other agile software knowledge

Skill Set 3: data informed decisioning