Scrum Master II

Position Information Job Title: Scrum Master II Location: Buffalo, NY Employment: Temp (12 months) Industry: Banking Compensation: $65.00/day / 40 hours/week About the Opportunity Provides servant‑leadership and mentorship to multiple cross‑functional agile teams through effective application of Agile principles and frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming. Strengthens understanding of effective practices, theories, and techniques to support continuous improvement. Educates and coaches teams to create an environment that fosters self‑organization, cross‑functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency, and continuous improvement. Visualizes, communicates, and radiates team information to keep their work and impediments visible to stakeholders. Why You'll Love Working Here Supportive, team‑driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability. Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries. People‑first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work. Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates. Why This Opportunity is Exciting This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance, where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally. About Acara Solutions Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider. We help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide. What You'll Do Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices, including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test‑Driven Development (ATDD), Test‑Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, information radiators, etc., to help create high‑performing teams. Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the agile teams, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives. Curate team‑level coaching content used to guide teams regarding agile practices. Facilitate meetings with the teams for purposes of idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem‑solving, and alignment. Help the teams gain transparency into their workflow through the appropriate use of information radiators. Address blocking issues that are beyond the team's authority, or require support from other teams, so the teams remain focused on achieving their goals. Work with other Agile Leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization. Provide mentorship to less experienced Scrum Masters. Seek and host a variety of individual and team learning opportunities, such as communities of practice, conferences, meetups, reading, and classroom training. Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk‑related issues needing escalation to management. Design, implement, maintain, and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis. Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client's brand. Maintain the client's internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points, together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable. While not having direct management responsibility, the position manages activities through influence, accountability, and ownership, functioning in an agile environment. Complete other related duties as assigned. What You'll Bring High School Diploma or GED. Minimum of 4+ years of experience as a member of an agile team. Minimum of 2+ years of Scrum Master experience. What Sets You Apart Bachelor's Degree. Depth of knowledge in at least two technology team roles (project manager, user experience, business analyst, developer, testing, deployment). Prior experience fostering team self‑organization and continuous improvement. Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices. Experience developing/managing digital capabilities. Understanding of Design Thinking principles. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Prior experience leading through influence. Ability to manage/coach multiple teams. Proven knowledge of Agility and ability to influence. Additional Information Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check. Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F‑1 OPT STEM work authorization status. Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran. #J-18808-Ljbffr