Job Title: Agile Scrum Master/Kanban FlowMaster

JPC: 5212

Location: Durham, NC

Rate: $55 to $60

Experience: 8 to 10 years

Required/Desired skills:

• Strong organization and analytical thinking skills with experience turning complex business needs into user scenarios, flows, and diagrams.
• Strong experience understanding and implementing Agile values, principles, and practices (i.e., Kanban, Scrum) based on Team's maturity.
• Strong hands on experience with tools like MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• Experience working with stakeholders for backlog item prioritization, grooming, and understanding of epic/stories/tasks
• Experience with JIRA to create/enhance dashboards, monitor progress of sprint/work flow, and providing statuses in timely manner.
• Demonstrated experience working on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work.
• Experience with work breakdown and estimation, sprint planning, monitoring progress and removing impediments to deliver solutions for business needs.
• Strong experience using facilitation and communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong experience using risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills.
• Experience in gaining buy-in and support from stakeholders
• Experience managing, maintaining, and analyzing data to derive meaningful and actionable insights about the portfolio.
• Demonstrated experience using effective leadership, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Certified Scrum Master or Kanban certification
• Demonstrated experience working with planning just enough, just in time to START moving forward.
• Certified SPC or SAFe agilist in SAFe transformation
• Knowledge of DevOps practices

Note: Need local to NC