Compri Consultings client is hiring a team of Scrum Masters for a 6 month contract. located in Greenwood Village, CO. This is a hybrid role. No third party candidates are able to be considered at this time.

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 teams pursuit of its sprint goals and ultimately deliver a product that generates business value to CoBank customers and associates.

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

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