Agile Scrum Master - Lead

Job Details:

Job Title: Agile Scrum Master - Lead

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Location: Atlanta, GA || On-Site

Job Description:

• Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
• Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
• Helps employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development
• Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
• Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
• Recommends change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team.
• Ensures the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value.
• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.
• Must be able to learn the applications you support and be able to speak to them

Qualifications:

What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
• Must hold at least one Scrum Certification from Scrum Alliance or SAFe
• Must have excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Bachelor s degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques

• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and Excel)
• Strong ability to anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, and make trade-offs, and balance business needs versus constraints.
• Ability to influence partners, customers, and vendors in support of the project plan and assigned resources.
• Experience working with technical and business teams to engage and educate both sides on the concept of Business Value and Technical Value, while striving to achieve sweet spot.
• Experience leading IT projects, especially infrastructure within a very large environment.