Agile Scrum Master

Agile Scrum Master

Pay Rate: $55/h on w2

Location: Smithfield, RI - Onsite work

Duration: 12 months Contract

The Role

• 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 all team members and product area leadership to reinforce and embed an agile approach and principles into the day-to-day work. This role often requires coordinating the efforts and releases of multiple systems teams with interdependencies 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
• 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 squad 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