Scrum Master

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Scrum Master in Irving, TX (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 18 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 4 years of Scrum or Agile experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
• Must understand SDLC best practices
• Cannot be a passive person
• Must have a coaching stance that bring influence to the table
• JIRA Confluence
• Scrum and KANBAN experience
• Must be driven individual - must demonstrate - should prepare to explain during the interview
• 6 years of Agile Scrum Master experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4 year of Scaled Agile methodologies or Large-Scale Scrum Framework (LeSS) experience

Desired Skills & Experience

• Scrum Master certification or other advanced Agile certification
• Knowledge and understanding of Agile operational metrics such as: Velocity, Predictability, and Sprint burn-downs
• 5 year of experience in Kanban
• Experience moving teams and organizations from Waterfall to Agile methodologies and Agile Transformations
• Ability to negotiate, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships

What You Will Be Doing

• Consult on or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within Scrum or Agile and contribute to large-scale planning related to Scrum Master deliverables.
• Review and analyze moderately complex Scrum Master challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of moderately complex issues and consult with others to meet Scrum Master deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with client personnel.
• Facilitate the scrum process on scrum teams with cross functional impact that involve moderately complex software development, non-software development or support enablement work
• Guide the scrum team(s) and organization to follow Agile and Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint
• Use empirical data to help the team(s) assess their Scrum Maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance
• Proactively address systemic impediments to team agility and guide the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blockers
• Coach scrum team(s) to deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met
• Partner with agile transformation leaders to convey their concerns to scrum teams about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards.
• Partner with Product Owner(s) and Product team to ensure continuous refinement of backlog
• Drive Scrum adoption across all levels in the organization
• Facilitate and be accountable for owning the Scrum or Kanban Agile ceremonies for the agile team(s)

Salary : $61 - $67