Scrum Master

Location: Columbus, OH
Salary: Negotiable
Description:
Job Title: Scrum Master

Location: Columbus, OH (4 days onsite, 1 day remote)

Type: Contract to hire

Contract only W2

Job Description -

MUST HAVES:

• Scrum Master experience with standing up new teams, many of which have limited agile knowledge
• CSM or PSM I certification (but PSM II or ACSM preferred)
• Experience with Agile/Scrum tools, such as JIRA, preferably Azure DevOps.

Detailed Description:

• Facilitates seamless collaboration and maximizes team performance by driving continuous improvement within assigned technical and non-technical teams.
• Ensure rapid and timely delivery of business value streams and achievement of goals.
• Mentors and coaches teams (including the Product Owner) in Agile practices and mindset.
• Fosters a growth mindset and spirit of continuous improvement and learning.
• Removes impediments to team progress whether internal to the team or organizational in nature. When necessary, escalates impediments to facilitate rapid resolution.
• Supports and educates product owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making.
• Ensures effective communication within and across teams.
• Influences and facilitates the empowerment of a self-organizing team.
• Schedules and facilitates cross-functional meetings.
• Ensures appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports effectively provide transparency on team's progress and productivity.
• Performs risk, issue, and dependency management for their team.
• Ensures release management practices align to enterprise standards.
• Manages the team Scrum Board along with the creation and management of Team Dashboards to provide information of Team Health, Sprint and Delivery progress, and Team Planning.

Basic Qualifications:

• Min 5 yrs of Agile experience
• CSM or PSM I certification required
• Scrum Master experience with standing up new teams, many of which have limited agile knowledge
• Experience with Agile/Scrum tools, such as JIRA, preferably Azure DevOps.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ACSM or PSM II certification preferred
• Knowledge of Agile project management fundamentals.
• Experience writing user story persona statements and acceptance criteria using Gherkin.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration or related discipline with an information technology or equivalent and extensive related IT Technical or Customer Support experience.
• Two or more years of business requirements analysis.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
• High degree of professional confidence and credibility with the presence and communication skills to represent IT-related concepts effectively.
• Adaptability; self-starter; team player; quality minded; focused; committed; able to work independently; critical thinking

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