Scrum Master

Scrum Master

Exciting opportunity to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact in an enterprise environment.

Candidates will collaborate with some of the best talents in the industry to create and implement innovative, high-quality solutions focused on our customers' needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Act as a Scrum Master to leads key initiatives to deliver project objectives for medium to large sized agile projects.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, Sprint reviews, retrospectives and demos with team and Product Owner / stakeholders.
• Assist key business users (product owners) with backlog creation, grooming and prioritization.
• Identify and remove impediments to prevent distractions.
• Maintain and publish agile metrics (e.g. velocity and burn-down).
• Collaborate closely with the Product Owner and Stakeholders to facilitate release management across teams to coordinate release scheduling.
• Maintain software release schedule and act as a liaison between teams to ensure proper communication.
• Serve as a coach while empowering team self-organization and self-management.
• Cultivate robust and sustainable working relationships between business and technology teams to foster a cross-functional team environment.
• Promote and evangelize Agile across the organization.
• Make recommendations for continuous improvement to enhance effectiveness.
• Adhere to internal SDLC and review processes and standards.

This is a 18 month contract opportunity with a leading global organization based in Alpharetta, GA, St. Louis, MO or Louisville, KY.

We offer 2 days a week of telecommuting and there is potential for extension / conversion. Successful candidates have a high level of initiative and thrive in a fast paced, enterprise environment.

Visionaire Partners offers all full-time W2 contractors a comprehensive benefits package for the contractor, their spouses / domestic partners, and dependents.

Options include 401k with up to 4% match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident coverage, and both Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.

REQUIRED SKILLS :

• 5+ years of professional experience managing technology projects with cross-functional, matrix staff (including vendors) with high integration across multiple lines of business and technical discipline.
• 5+ years experience as a Scrum Master or Project Manager to manage Agile projects with Agile software development methodologies, specifically Scrum, Lean or Kanban.
• Proven ability as a servant leader able to lead and work with multiple diverse roles and personalities.
• Self-motivated driver able to make progress despite obstacles and to solve problems.
• Strong time management skills and sense of timeliness in meeting commitments.
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
• Ability to understand the key metrics to measure, observe and optimize.
• Exceptional facilitative skills, must be able to lead and demonstrate value add principles with transparency (e.g. desire to bring disclosure and grow trust).
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both oral and written.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, specifically Excel and PowerPoint, and SharePoint 2010 / SharePoint 2013.

PREFERRED SKILLS :

• Scrum Master or other agile certification is a plus.
• Experience in leading process improvement and / or change initiatives, especially as it related to software development is a plus.

Must be authorized to work in the US. Sponsorships are not available.

Pay range : 50-63.50 / hour W2