Scrum Master

EDGE Services, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a skilled Scrum Master to join their remote team. This role involves collaborating with product teams to embrace agile values and practices, ensuring effective communication and continuous improvement. You will facilitate Scrum ceremonies, manage Agile metrics, and provide insights to leadership based on performance data. If you have a strong understanding of agile principles and are passionate about driving delivery results, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking company where your contributions will significantly impact project outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of agile principles and best practices.
• Proficient in Agile metrics to measure performance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between the Product Owner and the product team.
• Facilitate Team Scrum ceremonies to maintain focus and productivity.

Skills

Agile Principles

Scrum Techniques

Agile Metrics

Capacity Planning

Resource Allocation

Job description

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Base pay range

$55.00/hr - $65.00/hr

This is a contract position. It is a 100% remote position.

What will you do in this role?

• Serve as a liaison between the Product Owner and the product team to help embrace agile values, apply agile practices and to drive delivery results by monitoring progress, eliminating impediments and seeking opportunities for continued improvements.
• Proficient with Agile metrics to help the team set benchmarks, measure against goals, and evaluate performance. Establish baselines and improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
• Prepare the Quarterly Metrics for Leadership. Maintain and update the Program and Team Dashboards. Must be able to provide applicable insights and thoughts to leadership based on ongoing metric results.
• Facilitate Team Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives to maintain focus and productivity.
• Ensure all PBI’s, Features, Epics, Themes, Bugs and Risks are in alignment with client’s ADO standardization with clear and concise details.
• Lead and contribute to the Program Increment Planning ceremonies. This will include assistance in creating objectives, ensuring that features are linked, Risks and dependencies are identified, and the Planned Business Value is documented. Schedule routine meetings to determine state of Objectives and identify and resolve any impediments for the current PI.
• Serve as the team’s representative within the ART for the Scrum of Scrums meetings to identify any Roadblocks, Impediments and Key Accomplishments and share relevant information with the team. Drive to continuously improve communication and collaboration within the product team and with other delivery teams and stakeholders Maintain the ADO Data Integrity Dashboard by identifying and rectifying any issues.

What skills should you have for this position?

• Requires a strong understanding of agile principles and best practices.
• Must be adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, resource allocation, capacity planning and other Scrum techniques.
• Proficient with Agile metrics to help the team set benchmarks, measure against goals, and evaluate performance.
• Establish baselines and improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
• Prepare the Quarterly Metrics for Leadership. Maintain and update the Program and Team Dashboards.
• Must be able to provide applicable insights and thoughts to leadership based on ongoing metric results.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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