SCRUM Master - Mid-Level

Randstad Digital Americas; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 78,000 - 82,000; Part time

Job summary

Randstad Digital Americas in Southlake, Texas seeks an experienced Scrum Master to coach an Agile team, facilitate ceremonies, and ensure steady flow of work. You will partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to align on priorities and remove impediments.

You will create Jira dashboards, scripts, and reports, analyze velocity and capacity, and contribute to PI planning. This is a contract position offering competitive hourly pay and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence and Agile Scrum practices.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with stakeholders.
• Scrum Master certification and/or Practitioner credentials.
• Ability to create Jira dashboards and reports.

Responsibilities

• Monitor team health, flow, and effectiveness and coach for improvement.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and collaborate with Product Owners.
• Create Jira dashboards and configure boards and filters.
• Develop Jira automation scripts to streamline repetitive tasks.
• Analyze velocity and capacity to plan sprints.
• Prepare for PI Planning and participate in program meetings.
• Report program-level metrics as needed.
• Partner with stakeholders to align on project execution.

Skills

Analytical

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Scrum Master certification

Certified Scrum Practitioner

Dashboards

Presentation

Kanban

Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Responsibilities

• Responsible for continually checking on the health, teamwork, and effectiveness of the Agile Team and enables the Team to improve their practices within frameworks in use
• Monitors the flow of the Team's work, educates the Agile Team on the importance of steady flow of work, and works with the Team and Management to improve it
• Takes measurements on the health, teamwork, and effectiveness of the Agile Team to help them generate insights for their own and organizational improvement opportunities
• Triggers impediment and waste removal within and around the Agile Team so that the Team will be more self-organizing and self-reliant
• Accountable for establishing Scrum as defined by the Scrum Guides by helping everyone understand Scrum theory and practice within the Scrum Team(s) helping to improve practices
• Facilitates Sprint Planning, Reviews, Backlog Refinements and Retrospectives by working with the teams and Product Owners to ensure effective planning and outcomes
• Solves a range of straightforward problems and explains logic or decisions to others, basic skills in estimation, planning, relative sizing, prioritization, metrics analysis, team dynamics analysis, sprint reporting, creating Jira Dashboards, configuring Jira Boards, creating Jira filters, Jira roadmaps and Product Backlog management
• Creates Jira automation scripts to bring efficiency around manual repetitive entries in Jira
• Prepares the team for PI Planning and facilitates team events during the PI Planning
• Analyze and act on metrics like velocity and capacity to plan upcoming sprints
• Provide reporting in Program meetings as needed
• Partners with stakeholders, Business Partners, Product Manager and Product Owners to ensure alignment on project execution

Job Summary

location: Southlake, Texas

job type: Contract

salary: $56.37 - 59.37 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

Qualifications

skills:

Atlassian tools,Jira and Confluence,Cybersecurity,Jira,Scrum Master,Scrum,analytical,communication,interpersonal skills,Scrum Master certification,Certified Scrum Practitioner,dashboards,presentation,Kanban,Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [e-mail].

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.