Scrum Master - Hybrid

Job Title: Scrum Master - Hybrid

Duration (Contract): 2-3 Months

Client Location: Austin, TX

Location Preference: Hybrid

Job Description:

As a Scrum Master, you will lead multiple scrum teams at the same time. Ideal candidates must thrive in a fast-paced team environment and have a strong passion for technology and innovation. As a scrum master you will be responsible for working within a scrum team to enhance messaging applications, and to support business critical internal integration projects.

Responsibilities:

• Execute on Scrum Master responsibilities that include organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other meetings

• Influence team members to leverage, follow, and support agile software development practices

• Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA, and Technology Operations to ensure high-quality delivery of software projects on time and budget

• Track internal and external Project dependencies

• Identify gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans

• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint/release progress and maintain process documentation

• Provide accurate and succinct updates and escalations (with business impacts)

• Serve and support team by removing impediments and partnering with Senior Managers and Project Managers

• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; Identify and remove impediments; prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal; Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution

• Empower the teams to self-organize; improve the productivity of the sprint teams; ensure that the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable

• Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally

• Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverable are synchronized as necessary to achieve product releases

Required Skills, Experiences, Education and Competencies:

• Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years Scrum Master Experience

• Rally experience would be a plus

• Experience using Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) and maintaining Scrum Boards including feature break down to Epics, User Stories, Tasks and Subtasks

• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values and procedures

• Must be an excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate

• Experience working with agile methodology on large scale, technically complex projects

• Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle

• Highly adaptable to changing environment

• Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills

• Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential

• Must be self-motivated, as well as, creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.

• Must be collaborative in driving decisions and able to deal with multiple projects and deadlines

• Ability to hold team members accountable, set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, keep team engaged and on task.

• Experience working in the financial industry and aware of basic financial concepts

• Experience taking Business requirement and writing technical requirement using BDD

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, written and verbal

• Self-starter, organized, ability to work on multiple projects and handle multiple scrum teams

The hourly range for roles of this nature are $40.00 to $80.00/hr. Rates are heavily dependent on skills, experience, location, and industry.

cyberThink is an Equal Opportunity Employer.