Scrum Master - Mid Level - Fully Remote Contract! - Contract at TalentBurst, Inc.
Marlborough, MA
About the Job
Title: Scrum Master - Mid Level - 5-10 years of exp
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 1 Year contract but project expected to last 2 years
What you'll do:-
The Loss Prevention (LP) Global Solution Delivery Team is responsible for managing solutions and technology that delivers capabilities to keep our associates and customers safe, preserve company assets, and provide business value.
Major Duties/ Responsibilities:-
We seek creative, results oriented professionals to drive delivery. You'll work with engineers, Scrum masters, business programs, and other professionals to adapt and improve our back-office applications, infrastructure, and cloud modernization efforts.
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 1 Year contract but project expected to last 2 years
What you'll do:-
The Loss Prevention (LP) Global Solution Delivery Team is responsible for managing solutions and technology that delivers capabilities to keep our associates and customers safe, preserve company assets, and provide business value.
Major Duties/ Responsibilities:-
- Lead/Manage the scrum team
- Collaborate with the technical lead/s to plan the team's work and support the teams needs based on priorities
- Drive Loss Prevention Epics/Features and initiatives by contributing to stakeholder/ communication/ vendor/ financial management
- Acts as an escalation point for issues related to delivery
- Supports team impediment removal and dependency tracking
- Facilitates Agile team ceremonies e.g., daily standups, reviews, retrospectives
- Ensures team agreements are in place and coaches adherence to SAFe/Agile practices
- Drives iteration commitments and plan for delivering business value
- Collaborates with other Scrum Masters across the LP/Back of Stores ARTs as necessary, e.g., Scrum of Scrums
- Coordinates with other teams as necessary, for example a Shared Services or Release team
- Key Partner with the technical lead to ensure product backlog items are refined, prioritized and scheduled
- Supports estimating activities within the team
- Responsible for facilitating capacity planning
- Reviews metrics to measure team progress
- Identifies areas for improvement
- Validates time tracking
- Tracks team objectives using appropriate Agile tools/applications
- Protects team from external interference
- Supports the Global Stores ARTs in their Readiness/Preparations
- May provide Flow Board Management if supporting a Kanban team
- May supports 1 or 2 teams
- Ability to manage moderately complex work through their teams
- Influences work and process outside of the ART as needed
We seek creative, results oriented professionals to drive delivery. You'll work with engineers, Scrum masters, business programs, and other professionals to adapt and improve our back-office applications, infrastructure, and cloud modernization efforts.
- 5+years as a Scrum Master/ Project Manager/ Program Manager with agile teams using scrum/SaFe.
- Experience Leading and developing people.
- Proactive and 'can do' attitude to support the releases.
- Strong project management skills to drive and coordinate with cross functional teams.
- Strong oral (presentation + conversational communication) and written skills
- Must have the ability to work with JIRA, Confluence, Mural, Service Now and PowerBI.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast paced and support extended hours if needed.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skill to identify the deployment issues.
- Agile Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
