16 May
Scrum Master
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Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an Scrum Master for a Contract to Hire assignment with one of our premier Financial clients in New York, NY Must be onsite 3 days per week - No Exceptions. Client cannot sponsor Visas now or in the future. Job Functions/Duties and Responsibilities :
- Lead as Scrum Master to oversee development and delivery
- Create a collaborative team environment; partner with Agile Coach to provide constructive feedback for continuous agile improvement
- Develop team norms and balance workload for onshore and offshore developers, testers and Product Owners
- Promote Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development and testing organizations
- Work closely with Product Owners, other scrum masters, business analyst and QA to progress along squad agenda
- Plan and conduct Agile meetings/ceremonies Sprint planning, host story grooming, daily stand up, test plan and test cases reviews, sprint demos, retrospectives etc.
- Review and manage backlog and in-progress items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate
- Take a lead role in overall release management, which includes end-to-end regression test coordination, ensuring SDLC artifact adherence, runbook coordination, and deployment support
- Coordinate with partner technology teams on deployment preparations and execution (e.g., deployment script management, support team review and documentation, host deployment verification calls, and lead deployment issue resolutions)
- Maintain team metrics and report project statuses (e.g., velocity/burn down charts, financial status, issues/risks, etc.) on a regular basis to Product Owner, and to senior stakeholders
- Take ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through scrum-of-scrum ceremony
- Monitor team performance and balance workload and help identify continuous improvement opportunities to help the team work more efficiently
- 10+ years of relevant experience in a large complex banking organization or major consulting firm acting in a Scrum Master and project management capacity
- Highly versed in Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies
- Demonstrated ability to partner and liaison between business users and a technical development team
- Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications
- Proven servant leader Must be able to garner respect from their team and offer solutions by getting into the details
- Hands on experience to develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents, including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path
- Experience estimating resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
- Ability to proactively manage change in project scope, identify potential issues, and devise contingency
- Experience in Agile project management software/tools (JIRA / Confluence preferred)
- Proficient with MS Office applications: Excel, MS Project, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint
Vacancy expired!