Scrum Master -Woodcliff Lake, NJ - Georgia IT Inc.
Woodcliff Lake, NJ
About the Job
Scrum Master
Woodcliff Lake, NJ
6+ Months Contract
Phone then In person interview
USC,GC,TN & GC-EAD only on W-2/1099
No Corp to Corp.
Project Overview:
Woodcliff Lake, NJ
6+ Months Contract
Phone then In person interview
USC,GC,TN & GC-EAD only on W-2/1099
No Corp to Corp.
Project Overview:
- Responsible for ensuring that Scrum practices and processes are followed by the team.
- The ScrumMaster serves as the liaison between the Product Owner and the Agile software development team.
- This role helps the team reach peak productivity, coaches and mentors resources, resolves impediments that block a team and help track their progress.
- The ScrumMaster also plays a critical role in the adoption of Scrum and other Agile development practices by the organization.
- Serve as liaison between technical and non-technical (business) departments.
- Communicate with other management, developers, product managers, product relationship and technical support specialists on product issues.
- Facilitate Software Development
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Maintain process documentation.
- Ensure the development teams are practicing the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
- Experience with introduction of Agile in a hybrid environment (waterfall) and interfacing between the two is a plus.
- Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
- Identify and remove impediments, prevents distractions to the team.
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
- Empower the team to self-organize.
- Must have significant experience ramping up, coaching and mentoring teams to peak productivity working in a complex inter dependent software development environment.
- The successful candidate will be considered a subject-matter expert in Scrum software development methodology, be an effective communicator with strong servant leadership skills, have excellent logic and problem solving skills and a drive to make a difference.
- SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework is a plus)
- Four-year college diploma or university degree in computer systems design or computer science, and/or 10 years equivalent work experience
- Certified ScrumMaster with at least 2 + years of experience in this role post certification
- Thorough understanding of Scrum software development methodology, values, practices and procedures.
- Deep understanding of Agile principles and iterative development methodologies
- Familiarity with Microsoft and software development
- Experience with Microsoft TFS / Visual Team Services
- Ability to understand technical issues and identify the means to resolving them
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
- Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
- Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines
- Collaborative in driving decisions.
- Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
- Works smart by setting effective work goals, establishing priorities, and planning well in order to produce quality work.
- Experience with Agile transformation in an organization
- Experience working with large programs that use multiple Agile teams
- Hands on experience with metrics and tracking tools used in Scrum
- Experience with scaling Agile in the enterprise
Source : Georgia IT Inc.
