Senior SAFe Scrum Master

Motion Recruitment; United States; Remote; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a SAFe Certified Scrum Master to join their Agile transformation team. This role involves leading mid-size teams, facilitating Scrum practices, and driving process improvements in a multi-year IT transformation project. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Agile methodologies and experience with Azure DevOps. This is a contract role offering competitive pay.

Qualifications

• Five years or more as Scrum Master.
• Experience or degree in Computer Science or Business-related areas.

Responsibilities

• Lead mid-size Agile teams in transformation projects.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and support team in achieving goals.
• Educate team members on Scrum Framework.

Skills

Servant Leader

Facilitative

Team Coach

Assertive

Communicative and Social

Situationally Aware

Enthusiastic

Continual Improvement

Conflict resolution

Attitude of empowerment

Attitude of transparency

Education

Computer Science

Business-side Related Areas

Tools

AZURE DEVOPS

Job description

This range is provided by Motion Recruitment. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$65.00/hr - $75.00/hr

We have an immediate need for SAFe Certified Scrum Master for our client who is a Fortune 500 company. They are currently going through a multi-year enterprise IT transformation that includes migrating off their legacy technology to a more modern Microservices/Cloud environment as well as an Agile transformation.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a SAFe Certified Senior Scrum Master, you will work on the Agile transformation team and be responsible for leading mid-size team(s) of Developers, Testers, BA and Technical lead. Will provide an oversight in the key areas of upholding and facilitating Agile principles, Scrum/Kanban practices, sprint and release planning, deployment planning, communication and reporting, and agile process improvements and standards. Will work with the organization to help with Agile scaling initiatives. Additional duties will include:

• Manage multiple Agile Scrum projects under a single Business Portfolio. Facilitating and supporting the team in meeting their Sprint and Release goals towards Product Delivery. Strongly serving the Product Managers and Development Team in their quest to do everything possible to delight customers. Ensure all entry criteria for UAT and production are met. Supporting and educating the Product Manager, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Educate team and supporting members on Scrum Framework and mindset. Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Conduct and facilitate all Ceremonies (daily standups sprint planning, grooming sessions, product reviews, sprint retrospectives and other essential scrum events).
• Provide recommendations to team on how to increase effectiveness and efficiency with a keen eye on process improvement opportunities.
• Create all required artifacts required by the company's agile methodology. Generate sprint health reports and other dashboards as it pertains to the product. Maintains communication with relevant Business representative (Product Manager) and Functional representatives in regards to statuses, risks and concerns impacting the sprint delivery.
• Owns and maintains the approved ALM tool as it pertains to the team’s sprint and release and helps the team to maintain their own updates and deliverables. Track and approve hours worked by team members in PPM tool.

REQUIRED SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES

• MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE USING AZURE DEVOPS.
• Servant Leader – Must be able to earn respect from his/her team and be willing to get hands-on as needed to get the job done
• Facilitative – Must be able to lead and showcase value-add principles to the team
• Team Coach – Coaches the team on the agile process
• Assertive – Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum principles and concepts are adhered to, must be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls
• Communicative and Social – Must be able to communicate well with teams and fellow Scrum Masters
• Situationally Aware – Must be the first to notice the differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
• Enthusiastic – Must be high-energy
• Continual Improvement – Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and team
• Conflict resolution – Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
• Attitude of empowerment – Must be able to lead a team to self-organization
• Attitude of transparency – Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience or degree Computer Science or Business-side Related Areas
• Five (5) years or more Scrum Master

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology, Consulting, and Product Management

• Industries

  Utilities

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