Scrum Master

Scrum Master

Apex Systems is currently supporting a Scrum Master for one of our top clients.

Responsibilities/Tasks:

• Facilitation of the team ceremonies daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and sprint retrospective.
• Actively manage and address impediments that are beyond the team’s authority or require support from other teams.
• Communicate with management and stakeholders on the progress of team development by providing transparency.
• Monitor team velocity and capacity per iteration.
• Assist the product manager/BSA with product refinement of scope and prioritization.
• Assist in the estimation and planning of the work for the team based on the teams past performance.
• Managing the scrum process and coaching the team in agile methodology.
• Keep the team focused on the goals of the iteration by shielding team from outside distractions and interferences.
• Encourage the team to self-organize and be accountable for their decisions.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities (SKA) Required:

• Demonstrable knowledge with one of the agile frameworks (SAFe, Scrum and Kanban etc.).
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation and Communication skills.
• Ability to coach on how to follow agile methodologies.
• Understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
• Ability to help manage scrum team backlog and priorities using agile based tools (Jira, Rally/Central Agile, Version1, etc.).
• Excellent communication, facilitation and mentoring skills.
• Demonstrable conflict resolution skills.
• Demonstrable risk management and mitigation skills.
• Knowledge of tools used to assist with scrum team planning (Jira, Rally/Central Agile, Version1, etc.).
• Knowledge of healthcare industry, particularly Medicare preferred.
• Use of Jira for the management of team backlog and sprint tracking preferred.
• Knowledge of technical tools such as sql server,.net and ETL preferred.