SCRUM Master - Senior (6-10 Yrs)

Senior Scrum Master

Skills equivalent to 6-10 years in comparable position.

What You Are Good At:

• Responsible for overseeing all task activities assigned to the Scrum team are performed in a timely manner with minimal technical debt, while maintaining the highest quality of performance. Will interface with client personnel and use oral and written communications skills to develop great working relationships with stakeholders.
• Will lead a Scrum team to perform planning, development and testing on a large software development, implementation and integration project.
• Conduct all Scrum related activities, including sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospective and client demos.
• Interface with product owners on an active basis to manage product backlog and sprint activities.
• Remove obstacles and manage risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure all scrum activities are tracked and kept up-to-date and reported on a daily basis.
• Must have experience managing software development projects, preferably managing or performing software development projects using an Agile Scrum approach.
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
• PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) or Scrum Master (CSM) certification preferred.
• Ability to apply scrum estimation techniques to software development efforts, strong leadership and organizational skills with excellent communication (written and verbal), time management, project planning, people and team building skills.

The preferred location is Dallas or Austin.

What You Have:

• Scrum Master/Scaled Agile certifications
• 5+ years of experience facilitating the scrum practices (PI Planning, leading ceremonies, empowering teams, identifying coaching opportunities)
• High level of computer literacy; ability to learn new tools and products quickly
• Understanding and experience with broad technical skills across multiple domains (technology, information, process, applications, etc) and platforms (mainframe, web-based, PCF, etc.) and databases (SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Enterprise level digital messaging experience is a plus
• Experience with Atlassian suite of products: JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo
• Must be an excellent team player and a servant leader
• Highly adaptable to changing environment
• Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential
• Strong knowledge of Scaled Agile framework
• Ensure all scrum activities are tracked and kept up-to-date and reported on a regular basis
• Must have experience managing software development projects, preferably managing or performing software development projects using an Agile Scrum approach
• Ability to apply scrum estimation techniques to software development efforts, strong leadership and organizational skills with excellent communication (written and verbal), time management, project planning, people and team building skills
• Experience with scoping, sizing and overseeing multiple concurrent projects, assessing the appropriate level of risk, reviewing team deliverables and being the single point of contact for stakeholders
• Experience with negotiating prioritization between Product Owners and Technical leadership
• Understanding of CI/CD practices, lean methodologies
• Understanding of QA practices
• Experience with full software development life cycle through deployment

Duration: 12 -18 month contract with potential for conversion

- Enterprise Digital Messaging Team