Hi,
I am writing to see if you or anyone you may know of is interested in the below position, please email me resume at your earliest convenience along with the details requested below the job description.
Position : Scrum Master/Agile
Location : Eden Prairie, MN
Duration : 8 month projected contract (possibility of extension)
Description:
· Scrum/Agile Experience
· Experience leading agile/scrum teams
· Experience with Agile Management tools (e.g. Agile Central, JIRA, VersionOne)
Minimal Expectations:
o 2-3 years of practical experience in an Agile environment
o Looking for candidates with a good balance of coaching skills and practical experience
o Someone that can hit the ground running and has the passion to learn and grow their scrum team
o Refer to the Scrum Master job description that's included as part of the vendor package for more information
Description:
Key Competencies:
· Assertive: Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls
· Attitude of empowerment: Must be able to lead team(s) to self-organization
· Attitude of transparency: Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to both business and IT and build trust amongst partners
· Collaborative: Ability to partner with others to achieve goals at various levels throughout the organization and lead others to do so by example
· Communicative and social: Must be able to communicate well with all levels of the organization from Scrum team members to release train leadership
· Conflict resolution: Must be able to facilitate discussion at the team level and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
· Continual improvement: Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
· Enthusiastic: Must be impassioned and high-energy
· Facilitative: Must be able to lead by example and demonstrate value-add principles to scrum team(s)
· Flexible: Ability to shift to the role or tasks needed for each situational transformation. Ability to get the job done regardless of role definition
· Quick learner: Must be able to quickly gain a high level understanding of the technical and business domains of the scrum teams
· Servant Leader: Must be able to garner respect from team and stakeholders and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done
· Situational Awareness: Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise, put corrective actions in place and/or elevate them to management
· System Thinker: Must be able to analyze the entire software development environment and operating culture and bring practical solutions to improve and navigate both
· Team-oriented: Must be a team player who protects the scrum team
Key Responsibilities:
· Act as a Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams within a Release Train/Value Stream
· Establish team level cadence and drive team level ceremonies (e.g. sprint planning, team backlog grooming, team retrospectives, etc.) in alignment with Program level cadences established
· Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices
· Be a change agent and foster a learn by doing environment
· Encourage and facilitate cross-team coordination and collaboration
· Remove impediments for the team(s) and escalate as appropriate
· Facilitate management of the scrum teams dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or other scrum teams
· Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution
· Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality 10.Actively contribute to the company's Agile and Lean Community through participation in the internal Agile Community of Practice forums
· Provide real time feedback to the methodology team based on experiences with software delivery teams
· Track and manage project execution in accordance with company's solution delivery and financial management practices
· Manage Agile team financials
Required Qualifications:
· 5+ years of IT experience
· 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Agile Coach
· 1+ years of experience working on mixed methodology program (Scrum interfacing with Waterfall from a dependency perspective)
· 1+ years of experience working on large scale, multiple Scrum team projects
· Experience acting as a Scrum Master for multiple distributed scrum teams
· Experience leading agile/scrum adoption at the team level
· Experience with Agile Management tools (e.g. Agile Central, JIRA, VersionOne)
· Experience artfully applying multiple software development frameworks (e.g. waterfall, iterative, agile) to enable more efficiently delivering software
· Understanding of the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team *Understanding of fundamentals of DevOps, Continuous Delivery Accept Test Drive Development (ATDD)
· Understanding of backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition *Understanding of incremental delivery and the value of metrics
· Excellent communication skills in written and spoken form
· Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
· Industry Certification(s): Agile Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Preferred Qualifications:
· Industry Certification(s): Agile / Scrum, SAFe, Lean Methodology, and/or Project Management *Lean Methodology Certification(s)
· Healthcare experience
· Experience practically implementing or executing within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) *Kanban experience
· Ability to lead and influence large matrix teams both on and off-shore
| | Rajesh | Recruiter
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