Scrum Master - Workplace Platforms

Job Title: Scrum Master - Workplace Platforms
Projected Start Date: 10-20-2025
Projected End Date: 10-26-2026
Position Type: Contract
Location: Smithfield, RI ( Onsite )
Remote Work: false

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Required Skills

Come join the Workplace Investing Scrum Master Chapter!
As a Scrum Master you blend deep Scrum expertise with a passion for mentoring, coaching, and continuous improvement. As part of highly collaborative Agile team(s), you will advise on performance against Agile values, practices, metrics, and processes to accelerate value delivery. In partnership with the Product Owner, you will maintain a backlog, help to remove impediments, and ensure effective Agile events.
You will support the team by engaging with team members and product area leadership to reinforce and embed an Agile approach into the day-to-day work. This role often requires coordinating the efforts and releases of multiple systems teams to deliver a seamlessly integrated solution to our customers.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

Here are the key skills and areas of expertise that are critical for success in this role:
Bachelor s Degree/undergraduate degree/equivalent preferred
Introductory Scrum Master certification required; advanced certification preferred
Strong influencing, negotiation, and coaching experience with development teams in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment.
Substantial experience working with or in Agile teams with good understanding of Agile practices and tools (Jira, Kanban, Lean), technology, and value delivery for customers
Working closely with the Product Owner to plan and complete the highest priority work as per the product roadmap through well-executed sprints
Accelerating overall team performance, efficiency, and value delivered by engaging within and across teams to find opportunities to improve Agile maturity and metrics, and providing coaching, training, and resources
Ensuring Agile events are planned for and effective (e.g. sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives and as appropriate, Scrum of Scrums)
Maintaining and updating team performance metrics (e.g., burn-down charts) and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the team members and transparency to other partners
Organizing and presenting ideas and information logically and concisely to a variety of audiences
Handling multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
Coaching and mentoring complex teams
Participating in a community of practice, providing Scrum knowledge to members of your product area and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement within the product area.