Scrum Master

Scrum Master

Great long-term opportunity with an industry leader that is seeing their business accelerate

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
• Partners with product owners, product managers and senior leaders to ensure that business objectives are understood in the features and user stories, epics and roadmap to be developed
• Facilitate sprint planning, release planning, daily stand-ups, stakeholder demos, and sprint retrospectives
• Identify and manage dependencies with other internal or external teams
• Provide metrics and team health status to senior management
• Mentor on and ensure team members incorporate Agile/Scrum/Kanban best practices
• Identifies, tracks, reports and facilitates the resolution of issues and risks Implements and understands change practices, DevOps practices and processes
• Create and track metrics of team progress, productivity and use the metrics to help the team get better. (i.e. velocity, volatility, predictability and cycle time)
• Provide support to the team using servant leadership and leading by example
• Build a trusting and safe environment for the teams to express themselves freely, collaborate and experiment
• Train team on Agile principles and practices.

This is a 6-month contract opportunity in Atlanta with potential to extend. Work in-office on a flexible, hybrid schedule of 3 days per week (Tues/Weds with one additional day of choice).

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 3+ years of Scrum Master experience within an enterprise company
• Strong knowledge of Agile Scrum principles and practices
• Experience working with offshore teams
• Experience working with product and technology teams
• Jira/Rally
• CSM
• SAFe certification
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Must be authorized to work in the US. Sponsorships are not available.