Agile Scrum Master Lead

30 Jan 2025

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Job Details:

Job Title: Agile Scrum Master Lead

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Location: Atlanta, GA (

Day 1 On-Site)

Job Description:

Qualifications:
  • Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
  • Must hold at least one Scrum Certification from Scrum Alliance or SAFe
  • Must have excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
  • Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
  • Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
  • Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
  • Bachelor's degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
  • Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
  • Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and Excel)

Responsibilities:
  • Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
  • Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
  • Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
  • Helps employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development
  • Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
  • Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
  • Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
  • Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
  • Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
  • Recommends change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team.
  • Ensures the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value.
  • Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
  • Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.
  • Must be able to learn the applications you support and be able to speak to them

  • ID: #48926364
  • State: Georgia Atlanta 30301 Atlanta USA
  • City: Atlanta
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2023-01-30
  • Deadline: 2023-03-24
  • Category: Et cetera