Sr. Scrum Master

Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a Sr. Scrum Master

Position type : Contract

Duration : 6 12 Months

Location : Draper, Utah 84020, Hybrid (2 days in the office per week)

As a Sr. Scrum Master, you will :

Description :

The Senior Scrum Master has primary responsibility of facilitating the formation, learning and growth of multiple cross-functional delivery teams in developing a Lean / Agile mindset, adopting, and continuously improving practices in their context, and guiding teams and leaders to enable the effective flow of delivery across the end-to-end value stream.

As a servant-leader, the Senior Scrum Master plays a key role in planning, facilitation, supporting teams, removing impediments, providing team coaching and mentorship, visualizing the Lean value stream to optimize for flow, and working with other Lean / Agile practitioners to exchange learnings at scale.

Required Skills :

• Dependency Management
• Scaled Agile
• Lean
• Salesforce or SAP
• Dev Ops / CI / CD exp
• Certifications (Anyone is a big plus) : SaFE Scrum, ACSM, Scrum.Org
• Rally (Nice to have)

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions :

• Facilitate contextual adoption of the Scrum Framework, including daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews & retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings.
• Facilitate contextual adoption of Lean Thinking, including visualization and continuous. optimization of delivery flow using the Kanban Method.
• Facilitate and participate in scaled events, including cross-team planning, delivery synchronization, and systems-level inspect & adapt.
• Foster team collaboration and proactive, open communication.
• Encourage an experimental and fail-fast & learn mindset.
• Sustain and promote usage of information radiators for the teams and broader organization.
• Collect and share transparent team metrics with teams, recommend new metrics for the team’s context, and foster continuous improvement conversations using metrics.
• Prepare and facilitate quarterly, release, and sprint planning with the product owner and the team.
• Guide Feature and Story-level refinement to the Definition of Ready in preparation for the next quarter and upcoming sprints.
• Work with the team and Product Owner / Managers to maintain a healthy backlog and rolling short and mid-term planning for upcoming releases.
• Able to put ego to the side and the desire to control the team by teaching and mentoring increasing levels of self-organizing behavior.
• Engage the organization to remove impediments to the team’s ability to perform by working closely with the team and stakeholders, including product owners / managers, leadership, and other teams.
• Support communication of delivery progress and obstacles with a wide variety of stakeholders; coach product owners / managers to play an active role in stakeholder engagement.
• Facilitate cross-team orchestration, tracking and following up with internal and external.
• Works with team to co-create and refine team working agreement, definition of ready , and definition of done.
• Encourages brainstorming, creative thinking, open minds, equal voice, and perspective sharing. Encourages the team to be confident and courageous, thinking outside the box.
• Coaches the team on Lean, Agile, and Scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement. Able to subtly observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and growth opportunities of individual team members and her / himself, and invite team members into coaching conversations to inspire learning and growth.
• Create a fun, open, and learning environment, experimenting with various methods to improve and grow.

Qualifications :

• BA / BS degree in related field and 4 years of related experience; master’s with 2 years’ experience; or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• 4 years’ experience applying both the Scrum Framework and Kanban Method in growing high performing teams as a fulltime practitioner.
• Experience as a Scrum Master and / or Kanban Coach at an organization that is committed to Lean-Agile as its core approach for delivering business value.
• Experience working with Lean / Agile teams in the context of cloud infrastructure and DevOps.
• Experience working with teams applying test automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery capabilities to achieve delivery speed and operational stability.
• Experience using Lean / Agile collaboration tools like Rally, VersionOne, Jira

The ideal candidate will have : Dependency Management, Agile, Lean, Dev Ops, CI / CD

PAY RANGE AND BENEFITS :

Pay Range* : $65 - $68 per hour on W2.

Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Benefits : Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following : Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental / vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).