Scrum Master

Stefanini North America and APAC; San Francisco (CA); Híbrido; USD 110.000 - 150.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Stefanini Group is hiring a Scrum Master to join our Agile teams across multiple US locations in a hybrid model. You will coach, mentor, and facilitate Scrum teams, remove impediments, and protect sprint goals to achieve PI objectives.

You will serve as a primary communication hub between program and product management and the development teams, leading sprint ceremonies and driving continuous improvement across the organization. Strong knowledge of agile frameworks and Jira tools is expected.

Qualificações

• Bachelor in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field.
• 5 years of IT work experience and 1 year of scrum execution in IT/software development.
• Knowledge of multiple agile development methodologies and frameworks.
• Understanding of iterative and incremental development fundamentals.
• Leading teams.
• PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe, or equivalent certification preferred.
• Experience using agile tools, including Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence.
• Scrum, ScaledAgile, experience.

Responsabilidades

• Plans, leads, organizes, and coaches cross-functional teams on Agile practices.
• Leads sprint planning, task definition, execution, impediment removal, and retrospectives.
• Acts as a communication hub between program/product management and development teams.
• Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution to boost transparency.
• Supports release planning and keeps the backlog healthy for execution.
• Partners with program and release managers in production deployment activities.
• Tracks velocity, burn-down, cycle time, and other agile metrics.
• Acts as a change agent to maximize team productivity and fosters continuous improvement.
• Ensures effective communication between agile teams and Product Owners.
• Manages dependencies across scrum teams.
• Coordinates scrum-of-scrum activities across teams.

Conhecimentos

Agile methodologies

Coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication hub

Change agent

Formação

Bachelor in Computer Science

Information Systems

Business Administration

Ferramentas

Jira

Jira Align

Confluence

Descrição da vaga

Stefanini Group is hiring!

Scrum Master in Various locations- San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Portland, OR and Seattle, WA(Hybrid)

W2 Candidates Only

About Role:

As a Scrum Master / Sr. Scrum Master, you will be a key member of the Agile team, serving as a coach, mentor and facilitator of Agile practices. The Scrum Master/Sr. Scrum Master facilitates the scrum processes, protects the team from interference and helps remove impediments so that the team can deliver sprint goals and PI objectives. They foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous process flow, and relentless improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Plans, leads, organizes, and coaches one or more cross-functional teams on how to implement and improve Agile practices
• Leads the coordination and facilitation of sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review and retrospectives
• Acts as a primary communication hub between program and product management teams and the application development team to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time
• Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution by encouraging transparency and building trust among team members
• Works with Product Owners and Managers to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution
• Partners with program and release managers in production deployment activities
• Leads the development, analysis, tracking, and communication of team's agile adoption and progress metrics, including velocity, burn-down, cycle time, and other quality metrics.
• Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team
• Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner, and other scrum teams.
• Manages and resolves dependencies across scrum teams.
• Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution
• Drives cross-functional projects of medium to complex projects
• Coaches the agile team on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition
• Coaching the team on how to implement and improve its Agile practices
• Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities
• Works with other Scrum Masters in coordinating scrum-of-scrum activities across teams.

Job Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
• 5 years of IT work experience and 1 year of scrum execution in an IT or software development setting
• Knowledge of multiple agile development methodologies and frameworks
• Understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Leading teams
• PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe, or equivalent certification preferred
• Experience using agile tools, including Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence
• Scrum, ScaledAgile, experience

Stefanini takes pride in hiring top talent and developing relationships with our future employees. Our talent acquisition teams will never make an offer of employment without having a phone conversation with you. Those face-to-face conversations will involve a description of the job for which you have applied. We also speak with you about the process including interviews and job offers.

About Stefanini Group:

The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore and near shore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises around the world. Our presence is in countries like the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and more than four hundred clients across a broad spectrum of markets, including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM level 5, IT consulting company with a global presence. We are CMM Level 5 company