Description:
Must be local to Chicago. Hybrid schedule.
Experience working with Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile.
Minimum 7 years of Agile Scrum delivery
Understands and has participated in SAFe Delivery practices (3 years minimum)
Strong Experience with Jira- using for storyboard, writing queries
Experience with Confluence.
Experience with Azure Devops nice to have.
Strong preference for someone with experience working with multiple distributed teams, in an offshore model.
Enterprise experience is a must. Experience in Insurance, Financial services or Banking.

• Effective communicator with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be comfortable communicating with development teams, Product Owners, Product Management, and Management.
• Effective facilitation and conflict resolution skills - must be able to facilitate discussion of multiple approaches and drive resolution.
• Effective influencer, able to work upward and across teams to build rapport and partner with others to solve common problems.
• High level of personal accountability, as evidenced by their commitment, resilience, ownership, and mindset toward continuous learning.
• Continual improvement - must be constantly growing ones craft, learning new tools and techniques, and sharing these within and among teams.
• Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, and make the tough calls.
• Ability to facilitate, understand, and contribute to technical discussions.
• High motivation and drive to help the program teams excel and deliver based on program timelines.

Guide and coach one or more teams on Scrum practices and develop their understanding of Agile principles.
Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (for example, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives).
In a Scaled Agile model, facilitate scaled planning for the team (for example, Pre-Planning/ Preparation and PI Planning Events) and represent the team in Scrum of Scrums/ART Syncs.
Good knowledge of JIRA filtering, queries, dashboards, and reports.
Help the team define norms/agreements, like a Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, and enforce the agreements.
Ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog (in collaboration with the PO).
Facilitate dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the team.
Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration within the Agile team to support value delivery and Sprint commitments.
Provide visibility into the Agile team's delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders.
Enable the team to become high performing through collaboration and a relentless focus on continuous improvement including cross-skilling across the team.
Measure team delivery, maturity, and performance and review the metrics with the team to identify improvement opportunities.
Required Skills
Strong Certified Scrum Master with good Project Management & Coaching skills
Very good experience in delivering software development projects
Prior experience in Scrum Master role in Agile projects
Experience with Agile methodoloy/frameworks
Experience in Scaled Agile (SAFe) framework a plus
Excellent communicaiton, relationship building, and team player skills
About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.