Agile Scrum Master

Agile Scrum Master

Genesis10 is currently seeking an Agile Scrum Master for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC and Plano, TX. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

This role is responsible for optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered by one or more Scrum teams, and is focused on serving the needs of the team to drive performance and growth. Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating Scrum ceremonies, managing dependencies for the team, providing visibility into team delivery plans and progress, and enabling continuous improvement within the team. This role ensures impediments are resolved quickly, the team follows agreed-to processes, and promotes the Agile mindset and principles to empower the team to become self-managing.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate dependency and risk management for the Scrum teams and the ART
• Facilitate team and cross-team impediment removal for the team
• Promote and facilitate communication and collaboration within the Agile teams and across the ART to support value delivery and Sprint commitments
• Provide visibility into the Agile teams' delivery plans and Release plans on the program level and to stakeholders
• Ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog in collaboration with the Product Owner
• Measure team delivery, maturity, and performance and review the metrics with the team to identify improvement opportunities

Requirements:

• Proven experience as an Agile Scrum Master
• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira
• Ability to create JIRA queries and dashboards using JQL to assist and enable the team

Desired Skills:

• SAFe Scrum Master Certification
• Experience working in a SAFe environment, including PI Planning events
• Ability to enable the team to become high performing through collaboration and a relentless focus on continuous improvement
• Experience collaborating across the ART to create program level transparency, visibility, and drive commitment
• Experience taking on Senior Scrum Master responsibilities to drive ART ceremonies, host PI Planning preparation and execution, and support the creation of a Program Backlog

Pay range: $63.94 - $71.94 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!