Scrum Master / W2 ONLY / Must be Hybrid in Charlotte NC

Scrum Master / Charlotte, NC Hybrid Role / MUST ON W2 / Contract-to-Hire

About our Customer & Role:

Our direct customer, a global Fortune 500 company & a leader in the Food Services industry is looking for a senior Scrum Master , who is responsible for leading, facilitating, and motivating the Scrum Teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering agile products that provide exceptional business value to users. This role will be responsible for serving several concurrent high visibility product teams using the Scrum methodology in a fast-paced environment across many lines of business.

Responsibilities:

• Serving the Scrum Team by resolving impediments, helping the team to focus on creating value each Sprint and providing continuous coaching on how to apply Scrum methodologies.
• Serving the Product Owner by helping to manage the Product Backlog as needed, assisting in clearly communicating goals and work items to the Scrum Team, and facilitating communication between the Scrum Team and its stakeholders when necessary
• Facilitating collaboration cross-team where dependencies exist
• Ensuring the team holds all Scrum Events including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective in a productive way within the prescribed timebox
• Monitoring key metrics on the team s performance to drive understanding of velocity and increase overall effectiveness
• Ensuring all artifacts are transparent to the organization and stakeholders to promote quick and collaborative decision making
• Helping teams take feedback from the Sprint Retrospective and turn it into process improvement items
• Working in collaboration with the Agile Delivery Manager and other members of agile leadership to promote continued growth and maturity of agile practices within the organization
• Assisting in managing applications and products throughout agile development lifecycle, ensuring business relevance, adoption, and continuous improvement

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in IT full development life cycle
• Minimum 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Agile practitioner mindset with an understanding of common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and iterative development practices
• Ability to apply Scrum methodologies to help solve complex problems
• Demonstrated track record of successful ability to manage large and complex software implementations
• Flexibility to work with teams, individuals and executives and willingness to help with a wide variety of work products and people
• Ability to establish immediate credibility with clients, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence