Lead Scrum Master - Remote at The Evolvers Group
Washington, DC 20001
About the Job
Hi,
We have a Scrum Master/Team Leader position with our Direct Client, that I m hoping you ll be interested in. Please have a look at the details below, and if you'd like to interview, then fill in the attached application form and get it back to me today along with your current resume in Word format. I'm happy to answer any questions you have.
Role: Scrum Master/Team Leader
Req ID: # 2024-38
Work Location: Washington, DC (Remote)
Contract: 12+ months.
Job Description:
Client is looking for a motivated Scrum Master to join the team to support the development team using the scrum framework to ensure that project goals/milestones are met.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for facilitating scrum events such as PI/sprint planning, daily scrum, PI/sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
- Help the IRAP team remove obstacles/blockers that are stopping development or deployment process by facilitating the communication with external teams if needed or report any critical issues.
- Perform any necessary coaching to the team, improve the communication and collaboration within the team and stakeholders.
- Work closely with the product owners to scope and plan current and future work.
- Provide the product owner support in managing the backlog and provide clear communications to the product owner the status of the work items.
- Provide the project manager support in providing necessary monthly status updates, which could include creating reports or dashboards.
- Responsible for maintaining the Azure DevOps for IRAP.
- Design, develop, author, and maintain high quality operational support documents based upon functional needs associated with cloud infrastructure requirements, eliciting the materials in a collaborative effort with technical analysts, managers and project team members.
- Materials will be cataloged in a standardized format and posted for use and collaboration on designated SharePoint sites, with the data being worked from multiple sources that require consolidation, normalization, and regular synchronization.
Required experience:
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in leading projects or key business initiatives
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
- Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
- Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
- Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe)
- Able to plan and problem solve with product management and delivery teams
Certification: SAFe certification
Thank you for your time and I look forward to receiving your reply today.