Title: Senior Scrum Master

Location:

Charlotte, NC

Dallas, TX

Duration: 18 months

Work Engagement: W2

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

Facilitate the scrum process with cross functional impact that involve moderately complex projects, non projects, or maintenance work. Guide the scrum teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint. Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance. 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 discipline managers about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards. Facilitate the Scrum Agile ceremonies for the teams. Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from the team and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness. Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals. Interact with internal customers. Receive direction from leaders and exercise independent judgment while developing the knowledge to understand function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.

Qualifications:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Strong experience working as a Senior Scrum Master within a financial institution.
• Experience with Jira and able to create dashboards within Jira.
• Strong skills in Jira Query Language (JQL)
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal.