Role: Scrum Master

Location (onsite/remote/ hybrid): New York City, NY Onsite

Long term Contract

JD:

Responsibilities:

• Act as Scrum Master for two scrum teams, coaching the teams to achieve higher levels of agile maturity at a sustainable pace.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums and facilitate Program Increment (PI) execution
• Guide teams to be self-organized and motivate teams to focus on team goals/objectives
• Remove impediments and act as a change agent to implement Agile principles and best practices across the team and the organization
• Facilitate all Agile ceremonies, such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospective, daily stand-up, and sprint review/demo
• Facilitate getting the work done effectively and consensus-based methods in a matrixed environment. Ability to influence without direct authority.
• Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution
• Communication
• Foster internal team communication by building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged and with an emphasis on problem-solving.
• Assist with communication with the broader IT teams and business stakeholders to improve transparency and visibility into the team’s progress and impediments.
• Assist with documenting and tracking dependencies on other teams and with following up on the status of open items regularly.
• Scheduling meetings and coordinating agendas in advance of the meetings
• Support and educate the product owners in their role of creating, grooming, and maintaining the backlog and supporting the scrum team.
• Support and ensure that the Agile principles are followed. Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing (e.g. burndown charts, defect trends, user story/feature completion rates, capacity, velocity, etc.)

Qualification:

• Scrum master Certification
• SAFe Certification
• 5+ years of experience in a dedicated scrum master role for a software development team that was applying Scrum / SAFe principles, practices, and theory
• Knowledge and experience of Agile techniques: user stories, TDD, continuous integration, continuous testing, pairing, agile games
• Insurance experience and/or technical skills are strongly preferred
• Excellent interpersonal, listening, written, and oral communication skills, with the ability to communicate ideas in both technical and business languages
• Excellent coaching skills

Regards,

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Parthasarathy K

Lead Recruiter

Work: 972-474-8787 Ext: 306,Direct: 972-737-8607

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