Scrum Master - Pittsburgh, PA - Georgia IT Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
About the Job
Job Title :Scrum Master
Location : Pittsburgh, PA
Position Type :Contract to hire
US Citizen, Green Card, TN, GC EAD and H4 EAD only No Third-party agencies corp to corp.
Job Description:
Key Skills:
Team (Scrum) and Project Delivery & Execution:
Location : Pittsburgh, PA
Position Type :Contract to hire
US Citizen, Green Card, TN, GC EAD and H4 EAD only No Third-party agencies corp to corp.
Job Description:
Key Skills:
- Run day-in / day-out Agile project(s) stand-ups, grooming, facilitate Feature and User Story definition, maintain Jira, etc. Scrum Master exertise.
- Agile / SAFe
- Ability to Measure velocity / burndown / sprint metrics
- eCom, Store, retail experience preferred
Team (Scrum) and Project Delivery & Execution:
- Serve as Scrum Master for one or more teams, and/or manage one or more agile projects.
- Manages dependencies and drives alignment across product/technology teams and stakeholders
- Manages dependencies and defines work plans and action plans to help minimize or mitigate dependencies across the product teams and business teams.
- Integrated planning and roadmap alignment across product teams and business teams.
- Provides a central point for communication and escalation across product teams and business teams.
- Ensures resource alignment within and across product teams.
- Provide coaching for Product team on applying agile and scrum-based techniques
- Remove impediments for teams and shields teams from external interruptions
- Management and/or administrative support of Epics/Features, backlog and requirements and/or scope within product teams or across projects
- Build schedules / plans (iterations, release plans, outcome roadmaps, activity & milestone plans
- Track and report on progress (velocity and burndown, activity/milestone tracking, progress reporting)
- Facilitate ceremonies and manage the overall delivery process (iteration planning meetings, standups, recurring team meetings, retros, demos)
- Issue tracking and action planning / ownership
- Coordination, planning & alignment with teams/stakeholders; dependency tracking
- Resource planning and coordination; capacity planning and tracking
- Vendor management, planning and coordination; contracting
- Manage Change (change management, communications, storytelling, backlog grooming support, scope change)
- Provide coaching/mentoring and training to build competencies across key technology and stakeholder groups
- Drives Process Improvement efforts across product and business teams
- Help the Scrum Team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity
Source : Georgia IT Inc.