Scrum Master

Job ID: 26129161Reference Number: 25-00927Title: Scrum MasterLocation: Iselin, NJ, 08830Posted Date: 2025-08-14Contact: Devita GonsalvesContact Email: View email address on click.appcast.io Phone: (551) 795-0621Company: HAN Staffing Job Title: Lead Scrum Master Location: Pittsburgh, PA – Need to report 4 to 5 days/week onsite FT Job Description: Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) or Professional Scrum Master. Deep knowledge and experience with agile ways of working. Working experience as a Scrum Master – min 3 years. Total exp: at least 6 years. Ready to work from Client office – Co-location with Pod members is mandatory. Good to have working experience in bank or similar financial services firms. Build and coach high performing teams and ensure continuous value delivery. Ensures the development process "Scrum and Kanban” is understood and enacted. Oversees the team-level process and coaches the Pod team members; facilitates transparency, inspection and adaptation. Keep team organized and effectively facilitate agile meetings to ensure full Pod team engagement (stand-up, review, retrospective and planning meetings). Removes development impediments (e.g., Pod team communication barriers, logistic challenges). Enables close cooperation across all Pod team members and foster collaboration with other roles such as Release Train Engineer. Shields the Pod team from external interference and ensures the Pod team is functional and focused on the sprint goal(s). Fosters self-sufficiency of the Pod team and is not a crutch for the Pod team. Ensures continuous improvement of the pod's maturity, by implementation of agile metrics to effectively track, report pod progress and adopt best practices. Implements standards set by the Client Agile Practice and ensure adherence to Client audit/compliance requirements. Actively engage in Agile Practice community events and contribute to the knowledge base. Strong knowledge on JIRA and MIRO and Ensure delivery of a quality increment, JIRA hygiene is maintained and reflects actual progress. Collaborate with RTE and Engineering lead for team release management activities. Possesses and Understands DevOps, CICD, Test Automation and can work with team and push the team to enhance tooling and automation maturity. Coach the Product Owner & Pod in effective backlog refinement and prioritization around best practices in design thinking, estimation, and story writing. Should be able to work and create JIRA dashboards, plan, manage tooling hygiene. Able to effectively use MIRO to facilitates events and promote collaboration. Strong tooling knowledge in JIRA and MIRO.