Scrum Master

Scrum Master

Location: Hybrid onsite 3 days a week in Grand Rapids

Rate: $50-60/hr.

Description:

The ideal candidate for this role has 4 to 7 years of relevant work experience. The Scrum Master supports the team in delivering value by facilitating Scrum ceremonies, promoting effective Agile practices, removing impediments, and helping the team meet its commitments. Additional responsibilities include supporting backlog refinement, authoring user stories and acceptance criteria, tracking progress, and communicating delivery risks and issues. The ideal candidate for this role will have supported complex IT initiatives and ideally has worked across infrastructure environments such as networking, servers, and virtualization machines.


Primary Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, and Retrospective.
• Track progress and help the team meet its commitments.
• Support the Product Owner and team with backlog readiness, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Coach team members on Scrum practices and working agreements.
• Identify and help remove impediments, facilitate conflict resolution, protect the team from unnecessary disruptions, and support continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

• Degree in information technology, business, or a related field.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to build trust and collaborate with diverse teams.
• Practical understanding of Agile planning and estimation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Experience: Experience serving as a Scrum Master and supporting multiple Scrum teams. Practical experience with ceremony facilitation, backlog refinement, team coaching, impediment removal, and continuous improvement. Infrastructure, networking, or operations experience preferred.


Preferred Certification: CSM, PSM, or KMP


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Disclaimer: Brooksource, Medasource, and Calculated Hire are part of the Eight Eleven Group family of companies and operate under Eight Eleven Group, LLC. All employees receive the same benefits, policies, and terms of employment.


EEO:
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related conditions), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.


Benefits & Perks:
Brooksource offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that can fit each employee's needs. We offer a 401k plan that includes a company match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides services like virtual counseling, financial services, legal services, life coaching, etc.


Pay Disclaimer:
The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.