Scrum Master /Team Coach #1064915

Fasttek; Okemos (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & Dental

Vision

PTO

Long-term Disability

Life Insurance

401(k) with 3% match

Referral program

Recognition culture

Job summary

FastTek Global is seeking a Scrum Master / Team Coach in Okemos, MI to serve as a servant leader for 2-3 software teams, maturing SAFe/Agile practices and facilitating Scrum ceremonies. The role emphasizes coaching, facilitation, and cross-team collaboration to remove impediments and improve outcomes.

The ideal candidate will have a CS/IS degree, 3+ years as Scrum Master, and relevant certifications; strong communication skills are essential for engaging stakeholders and driving continuous

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems; five years IT experience; three years as Scrum Master.
• Understanding of Agile practices, service-oriented environments, iterative development; knowledge of ATDD, TDD, CI, automation.

Responsibilities

• Performs as a Scrum Master for 2-3 teams.
• Performs assessments at the team or train level.
• Leads, develops or improves internal training courses.
• Facilitates coach sync meetings and cross-team communication.
• Maintains and creates metrics to gauge progress and drive improvements.
• Supports PI Planning by capacity calculation and WSJF coaching.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile practices

Facilitation

Coaching

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems

SP, SSM/CSM, SPC, SASM certifications preferred

Tools

SAFe knowledge

Job description

Okemos, Michigan Scrum Master /Team Coach #1064915

Job Description:

Job Summary: Works as a servant leader and coach to enable teams to self-organize, self-manage and deliver on their goals by following Lean-Agile practices. Coaches the organization in maturing the SAFe/Agile practices at both the team and enterprise level. This SM will be capable of leading software development and product teams as well as experience with Kanban. This person will need to be an excellent communicator, above all else.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Performs as a Scrum Master for 2-3 teams.
• Performs assessments at the team or train level.
• Leads, develops or improves internal training courses.
• Enables cross communication between agile teams by participating in, organizing, and facilitating the coach sync meetings.
• Maintains and creates relevant metrics to gauge team progress and drive improvements.
• Contributes to writing SM CoP yearly objectives.
• Demonstrates mastery of servant leadership (Facilitation, Coaching, Continuous Improvement).
• Focuses on improving team dynamics and performance. Helps the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth. Escalates problems to management where necessary, but only after internal team processes have failed to resolve the issue; helps individuals and teams through personnel changes.
• Facilitates the scrum ceremonies, removes impediments, acts as a buffer for the team from all outside distractions, and ensures that scrum rules are followed. Assists the team in staying accountable to their commitments consistently.
• Prepares the team(s) for PI Planning events by calculating capacity and coaching best practices for WSJF (weighted shorted job first).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Position requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems and five years of information technology experience with five year's work experience leading projects/developing or leading teams, three of those years must have been as a Scrum Master. SP, SSM/CSM, SPC, and SASM certification preferred.
• Position requires an understanding of common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and iterative development practices; knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, and Automated Testing preferred; ability to manage large and complex projects; ability to help teams write user stories/epics, identify dependencies, and design optimal solutions; ability to establish immediate credibility with business stakeholders, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence; excellent interpersonal/communication skills.

Additional Info:

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories.Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashionedhard work for 24 years!

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

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