Job#: 3052638 Job Description: Senior Scrum Master
Location: Austin, Texas (Hybrid)
Role Overview
An experienced Scrum Master is sought to lead multiple scrum teams simultaneously in a fast-paced environment. The role involves working within a scrum team to enhance messaging applications and support business-critical internal integration projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong passion for technology and innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and demos.
- Influence team members to leverage, follow, and support agile software development practices.
- Interface with the product owner and key stakeholders to ensure delivery of software projects.
- Track internal and external project dependencies, identify risks early, and establish mitigation plans.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Serve and support the team by removing impediments.
- Assist the team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
- Empower teams to self-organize and improve productivity.
- Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency.
Required Qualifications
Experience: Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years of Scrum Master experience. Experience working with agile methodology on large-scale, technically complex projects is required. Experience in the financial industry is also necessary.
Technical Skills: Experience using the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) and maintaining Scrum boards is required. A thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, procedures, and the software development life cycle is necessary. Experience taking business requirements and writing technical requirements using BDD is also required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Rally experience would be a plus.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
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