Scrum Master

Overview

On Site
$65.0000 - $67.0000
Full Time

Skills

Scrum
Agile
SAFe
Kanban

Job Details

Client - Banking Client

Title - Scrum Master

Location - Buffalo, NY 14203 - Hybrid Role

Duration - 06 Months (Possible Extension)

Pay Rate - ($66-$68) hourly.


Skill Set:


  • Knowledge of the banking industry

  • Previous Scrum Master experience

  • Previous Scaled Agile Experience


Overview:


  • Provides servant-leadership and mentorship to multiple cross-functional agile teams through effective application of Agile principles and frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP).

  • Strengthens understanding of effective practices, theories,s and techniques to support continuous improvement.

  • Educates and coaches teams to create an environment that fosters self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency, and continuous improvement.

  • Visualizes, communicates, and radiates team information to keep their work and impediments visible to stakeholders.


Primary Responsibilities:


  • Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices, including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, information radiators, etc., to help create high-performing teams.

  • Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the agile teams, constantly discovering better ways of working through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives.

  • Curate team-level coaching content used to guide teams regarding agile practices.

  • Facilitate meetings with the teams for purposes of idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving, and alignment.

  • Help the teams gain transparency into their workflow through the appropriate use of information radiators.



Education and Experience required:


  • Bachelors degree and a minimum of 4 years experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 8 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience.

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