Job Title: Scrum Master: II (Intermediate)
Location: Greenwood Village, CO (Hybrid 3 Days A week In Office)
Duration: 6 Months Contract To Hire

Job Description:

The Scrum Masters job is to facilitate Agile team events & progress toward team goals, remove impediments to facilitate flow and coach to high performing teams. The SM is a key role within an Agile delivery team as it removes any impediments that obstruct a team's pursuit of its sprint goals and ultimately deliver a product that generates business value to *** customers and associates.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Accountable, along with the Agile team, for achievement of PI Objectives
• Track progress and help the team achieve their commitments. Progress is monitored daily when problems are identified work with team to develop corrective actions.
• Manage risk to delivery by raising / resolving impediments in a timely manner
• Ensure team members understand SAFe processes and support the team in following them.
• Ensure product quality expectations are defined and known across the team.
• Work with technical team and product owner balancing the interests of both when issues arise.
• Remove impediments allowing the team to focus on engineering tasks.
• Take the lead on resolving conflicts within the team removing any roadblocks to collaboration.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum, refinement, retrospective and sprint review events.
• Facilitate retrospective discussions and support continuous improvement efforts.
• Management of external dependencies the team must deal with as identified.
• Maintain the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the Agile team to create a trusting and safe team environment
• Track & report team progress leveraging appropriate Agile metrics
• Cross-functional communication, ensuring transparency of progress and outcomes; report progress sand accomplishment up and across as requested/required

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree - information technology or business or related field
• Exceptional people skills. Comfortable working with a diverse group of people and serve as arbitrator when conflicts arise.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Growth mindset, learning mindset, strategic thinking
• Facilitation skills
• Familiarity with modern software engineering techniques such as Continuous Integration, build, deliver, test-driven development and other automated acceptance testing techniques
• Highly collaborative, solid interpersonal skills and able to work with diverse personality types
• Motivate and enable the Agile teams to be self-organized

EXPERIENCE:

• 2-5 years of Experience serving as Scrum Master
• Banking/Financial industry experience a plus
• Exp: 2 - 5. Experience: Relies on some experience to plan and accomplish tasks.
• Leadership/Contributions: May lead junior resources.
• Reports to: Manager.
• Advanced Degree or Certifications? Maybe.

Hybrid- Onsite Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

- ScrumMaster roles will be aligned to Agile Delivery teams transitioning to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Domains: Data Architecture, Infrastructure, Cloud, Systems Reliability – Foundation technology focused teams
- Type of background you are looking for (education, # yrs experience, etc.): 3-5 yrs. Scrum Master experience, Agile Coaching experience, SAFe certification preferred
- Top 3-5 Skills Needed: Communication, Facilitation, Agile Coaching, Neutrality & Obstacle Remover
- Top 3-5 Soft Skills for culture fit: Guiding a team with influence (without authority), identification and removal of blockers, creating psychological safety and enabling team performance
- Any certifications required?: SAFe SM or SP preferred

Job Types: Contract, Permanent

Pay: $52.00 - $54.00 per hour

Experience level:

• 3 years
• 5 years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Scrum: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• PMP (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Greenwood Village, CO 80111: Relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Greenwood Village, CO 80111