Role: Scrum Master
Duration: 12+ Months Contract
Location: West Conshohocken, PA
Interview: phone/video
GC/ USC
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Location: West Conshohocken, PA, United States only Local
Description:
Scrum Master for a consulting engagement in West Conshohocken, PA. This Scrum Master will manage multiple teams as part of our Agile Release Train.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure that work/project is delivered in scope, on-time, of superior quality and on-budget.
- Utilize SAFe, agile/methodologies, and relevant supporting software to manage the planning, scheduling, reporting and change management from intake to estimation to execution and delivery to closure.
- Communicate with stakeholders, scrum teams and management, escalate impediments, help manage risk and drive relentless improvement to the ART as well as bring those learnings to the PMO.
- Manage risks, issues, and problems reports; working with the project leads on risk mitigation activities, scheduling of workarounds and fixes for such items as well as reporting in a timely fashion to management, the business, customers, and stakeholders
- Build and foster relationship with vendors, IT and business stakeholders to create organizational credibility with respect to all project management deliverables and process efficiencies.
- Prepare and deliver regular, effective communications to ensure that ART, project sponsors, stakeholders, and team members are adequately apprised of project statuses, successes, risks, and issues.
- Evaluate and improve processes as well as the technical tools required to achieve success.
- Advocate for the PMO to the business by mentoring business partners, team members, project managers, etc. on the PMO services and disciples.
- Remove impediments and foster an environment that facilitates flow, continuous improvement, and enables a high-performing team dynamic
- Facilitate all team meetings including the daily stand-up, iteration planning, iteration review, and iteration retrospective.
- Work with onsite as well as offsite IT teams.
- Facilitate user story triage and effort estimation by the development team and delivery to the product owner for prioritization
- Supports the Product Owner in managing the product backlog
- Coordinates with other teams in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meetings
- Liaison between the product owner and the development team by having working knowledge of development methodologies and tools effectively
- Assist when necessary in managing the agile release train (ART), facilitate the agile events and process, and assist the teams in delivering value.
Required Skills:
- Scrum Master Certification
- 5+ years' experience as a Scrum Master in software development environments
- One or more years of experience in which one or more of the following occurred:
- Demonstrated competency in the execution of SAFe practices and ART
- Gained experience leading teams providing coaching, mentoring and training to internal teams. This is not a requirement nor part of the responsibilities
- Experience delivering value by meeting requirements, on schedule and on budget
- Experience with SAFe and agile practices including use of Microsoft Office and Atlassian Suite (JIRA and Confluence)
- Bachelor's degree
Preferred Skills:
- SAFe certification
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
- Excellent written/verbal communication and facilitation skills for communicating at all levels (employees and leaders); including strong presentation skills.
Lalit Kumar | Absolute IT | Technical Resource Specialist
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