Scrum Master (Financial Services) Minneapolis MN or Atlanta GA (hybrid) from INSPYR Solutions
Home-based, MN 99999
About the Job
Title: Scrum Master (Financial Services)
Duration: 12+ months
Location Options: Minneapolis MN or Atlanta GA (hybrid)
Compensation: $60 -$72 /hr.
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders, or Authorized to Work in the U.S.
TOP REQUIREMENTS: The ideal candidate would have 5+ years of experience and should have strong Agile facilitation skills, demonstratable experience with multiple Agile SDLC Methodologies, and experience at both the Team and Team of Teams levels.
The organization is on an agile, product, and digital transformation journey, and as a Scrum Master, you will be guiding multiple agile teams through their journey and helping drive agile transformation across products and lines of business. As a Scrum Master, you will act as a leader and on-team coach for multiple scrum teams. We have multiple opportunities open at various levels based on experience. We are looking for a dynamic, collaborative personality that can champion the cause of the agile movement within the organization. You are passionate about leading change, helping shift mindset, and influencing culture change. Fostering new ways of thinking, new ways of working, and building new capabilities that will help unlock new possibilities. You possess strategic vision and tactical mastery and combine it with an entrepreneurial spirit to get it done. You will play a fundamental role in achieving our ambitious objectives and work closely with partners across product teams to design innovative solutions and balance challenging priorities and demands. You are laser-focused on operational excellence and customer satisfaction and you'll need to wear many hats, so flexibility and a can-do attitude are critical!
Major Responsibility:
About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients’ business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.
INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
Duration: 12+ months
Location Options: Minneapolis MN or Atlanta GA (hybrid)
Compensation: $60 -$72 /hr.
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders, or Authorized to Work in the U.S.
TOP REQUIREMENTS: The ideal candidate would have 5+ years of experience and should have strong Agile facilitation skills, demonstratable experience with multiple Agile SDLC Methodologies, and experience at both the Team and Team of Teams levels.
The organization is on an agile, product, and digital transformation journey, and as a Scrum Master, you will be guiding multiple agile teams through their journey and helping drive agile transformation across products and lines of business. As a Scrum Master, you will act as a leader and on-team coach for multiple scrum teams. We have multiple opportunities open at various levels based on experience. We are looking for a dynamic, collaborative personality that can champion the cause of the agile movement within the organization. You are passionate about leading change, helping shift mindset, and influencing culture change. Fostering new ways of thinking, new ways of working, and building new capabilities that will help unlock new possibilities. You possess strategic vision and tactical mastery and combine it with an entrepreneurial spirit to get it done. You will play a fundamental role in achieving our ambitious objectives and work closely with partners across product teams to design innovative solutions and balance challenging priorities and demands. You are laser-focused on operational excellence and customer satisfaction and you'll need to wear many hats, so flexibility and a can-do attitude are critical!
Major Responsibility:
- Embrace the agile mindset, advocate and champion agile across the Technology organization by challenging, coaching, and guiding teams using agile and lean principles
- Provide creative solutions to agile transformation issues: resistance to change, limited resources, conflicting priorities, lack of accountability
- Ability to utilize agile methods in a flexible manner that often includes traditional project management which can include hard deadlines/fixed dates at times
- Understand the various agile frameworks, events, and artifacts (i.e. scrum, Kanban), where they are fit for purpose, and how to implement/apply them with new and existing teams
- Manage and facilitate team ceremonies including quarterly product planning, product owner syncs, backlog grooming, estimating and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives.
- Facilitate and coach to draft, track progress, and continuously improve on Objective and Key Results (OKRs)
- Coach teams and leaders in agile principles and practices, roles and responsibilities, and frameworks
- Foster a continuous improvement environment to build high-performing, agile teams
Track and report on metrics for teams to measure progress, effectiveness of agile adoption, and agile maturity of the teams - Guide product management teams in their role, defining MVPs, developing product charters, product community maps, product roadmaps, and release plans, story mapping, writing stories, and backlog prioritization and management
- Train and mentor other Scrum Masters on the role of the scrum master and build communities of practice for scrum masters to share, learn, and grow
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- Five or more years of experience in Agile technology delivery
- Five or more years of experience in Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) teams
- Five or more years of experience as a Scrum Master
- Strong knowledge of Agile values, principles, and practices and capacity to understand specific needs or requirements to apply skills/knowledge
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification a plus
- Experience as a Scrum Master managing multiple teams simultaneously
- Knowledge of scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, and other Agile frameworks Comfort with agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MURAL
- Experience with distributed teams, in multiple time zones
- Demonstrated ability to partner and communicate effectively with non-technical team members, resolving contending or contradictory objectives, and unifying disparate ideas into a homogenized solution
- Possess the ability to influence others, implement change, and standardize processes in a complex business environment
- A passion for mentoring and growing the potential of others
- Great teammate - should be ready to go beyond to help the immediate team and not be averse to not shy away from asking for help if needed
- Eagerness to learn new technologies and bring new ideas to the table
- Demonstrated growth mindset
- Positive attitude and ability to inspire the team toward continuous improvement
- Experience with outcomes-based planning and delivery (i.e., OKR)
- Ability to partner with Product, Tech, UX, and Data disciplines
- Experience with Design Sprints and/or Product Discovery Tactics
- Direct experience with big room planning and cross-team coordination
- Understanding of fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
- Experience successfully delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule
About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients’ business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.
INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
Salary
60 - 72 /hour