Scrum Master

Job Description

Looking for more than just an assignment? We're looking for you! This isn't just another assignment, but a real opportunity and a challenge for the right person. LRS Consulting Services is seeking a Scrum Master for a contract opportunity with our client!


LRS Consulting Services has been delivering the highest quality consultants to our clients since 1979. We've built a solid reputation for dealing with our clients and our consultants with honesty, integrity, and respect. We work hard every day to maintain that reputation, and we're very interested in candidates who can help us. If you're that candidate, this opportunity is made for you!

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in discussions and take actions to evolve Agile standards and processes
• Establish, communicate and follow standards across development teams and work to evolve new practices and ensure ownership
• Ensure standards, processes and tools support successful sprint / cycle activities, visible via metrics
• Guide the team in Agile / Scrum practices aligned with our standards, facilitating Scrum events as necessary and recommending adjustments when required
• Technical Support: Triages, troubleshoots and resolves technical support issues. Escalates issues as needed.
• Software Development Principals: Utilizes software development, secure programming principles and a knowledge of programming languages to develop, configure and / or integrate new software and applications.
• Business Needs Assessment: Identifies business needs across departments within the Firm to understand the challenges, goals and problems that the business needs to solve and identifies appropriate technical solutions.
• Data Management and Information Security: Manipulates, restructures and / or queries data for various purposes, including reconciling issues in the database, designing database structures and / or generating reports. Adheres to governance principles and maintains data integrity and security.
• Risk Management: Identifies, forecasts and articulates ways to pursue and manage informed risks in ambiguous, complex or uncertain situations based on sound value propositions and an analysis of potential rewards and costs.
• Testing: Evaluates the functionality of an application, system or solution to ensure that requirements have been met and defects have been identified. Applies an understanding of end user requirements and usage in the end-to-end system to produce a quality product.
• Industry Knowledge: Demonstrates an understanding of the Firm's position in the industry, including its complex structure and competitive advantage in the marketplace. Monitors industry trends and changes and recognizes their relevancy and implications.
• Technical Communication and Documentation: Documents and communicates technical processes and procedures in area of specialty to stakeholders. Adapts the level of detail and specificity based on the needs of the intended audience.
• Vendor Management: Manages and coordinates with external vendors. Researches and identifies new vendors as needed and monitors performance.
• Relationship Management: Builds and maintains effective partnerships with internal clients and end users by advising on their needs and options, advocating for their business within the Technology Solutions department and managing expectations appropriately.
• Project / Program Management: Manages Technology Solutions project elements considering conflicting priorities, interdependencies, business objectives, communications and available resources.
• Innovative Mindset: Leverages an agile and creative mindset to drive innovative value creation, continuous process improvement and proactive learning through new technology, processes and people.

Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies:

• Ensure standards are being followed as it relates to all scrum meetings and practices
• Focus on removing impediments and providing feedback for continuous improvement
• Align product delivery goals and ensure they are clear and accepted by the delivery team
• Assist with backlog refinement, preparation for upcoming sprints and aligning on objectives
• Demonstrate strong agile project management.
• Meet with team leaders to guide and identify scope, tasks, dependencies, timelines and schedules
• Support the tracking of impediments, risks and issues, ensuring assignment and resolution. Foster an environment of continuous improvement and proactive communication and collaboration
• Track team velocity, sprint/release progress and delivery metrics
• Participate in the development and maintenance of agile planning tools including Power BI dashboards and reports. Develop Azure DevOps dashboards for monitoring
• Create and maintain metrics for the teams using data points and trends to communicate progress, quality, bottlenecks and team health
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint / release progress to all affected teams
• Incorporate findings from metrics, improvements to standards which will benefit our entire development lifecycle (sprint cycle, stand-ups, planning, demos, burn down charts, and release health)

Continuous Improvement:

• Understand team's maturity and partner cross-functionally to help the team on their journey. Identify and implement coaching opportunities to reinforce our standards
• Propose changes to our ADO standards pending increased maturity or as opportunities arise which help provide the best solutions for The Firm
• Lead and facilitate continuous improvement efforts with the team through retrospectives and implementing effective transformations to enhance team performance and productivity

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field is required
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or similar Agile certification
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Project Manager with at least 3 years of focused Scrum Master experience
• Proficient with Agile project management tools
• Strong analytical and reporting skills (Power BI) (preferred)
• Enthusiastic about working in office and creating a Gold Standard hybrid work culture

The base range for this contract position is $55.00 -$75.00 per hour, depending on experience; pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hires of this position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

LRS is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for employment will receive consideration without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, gender identity, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship, status or protected veteran status.

In some cases, LRS Consulting uses generative artificial intelligence ("AI") in support of our hiring processes. LRS takes steps to ensure the use of AI does not result in discrimination based on protected class(es). AI may be used in the hiring process solely in support of the assessment of candidate qualifications. All decisions in the hiring process are made by LRS employees. If AI will be used in the hiring process for the position for which you are applying, you will be notified and will have the opportunity to opt out.