Scrum Master IV: 21-03591
- Full-Time
- Detroit, MI
- Akraya Inc.
- Posted 2 years ago – Accepting applications
Job Description
Primary Title: Scrum Master IV
Duration: 18+ months
Type: W2
Location: Detroit MI / Charlotte, NC
Note:
Position can be filled in Charlotte, NC or Detroit, MI.
Potential to be contract to perm.
Expectation for candiate to work on-site once our financial client office reopens.
Position Description
Responsible for effective collaboration, facilitation, and leadership of agile teams and managing projects that meets IT strategic goals. Mentors others on agile and project management methodology. Supports continuous improvement.
Job Responsibilities
Akraya is an award-winning IT staffing firm and the staffing partner of choice for many leading companies across the US. We offer comprehensive benefits including Health Insurance (medical, dental, and vision), Cafeteria Plan (HSA, FSA, and dependent care), 401(k) (enrollment subject to eligibility), and Sick Pay (varies based on city and state laws).
If this position is not quite what you're looking for, visit akraya.com and submit a copy of your resume. We will get to work finding you a job that is a better fit at one of our many amazing clients.
Akraya is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Akraya is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
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Duration: 18+ months
Type: W2
Location: Detroit MI / Charlotte, NC
Note:
Position can be filled in Charlotte, NC or Detroit, MI.
Potential to be contract to perm.
Expectation for candiate to work on-site once our financial client office reopens.
Position Description
Responsible for effective collaboration, facilitation, and leadership of agile teams and managing projects that meets IT strategic goals. Mentors others on agile and project management methodology. Supports continuous improvement.
Job Responsibilities
- Facilitates the sizing of stories during the planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for the team.
- Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients.
- Establishing team level cadence and driving team level ceremonies (e.g. sprint planning, team retrospectives, backlog grooming, etc.)
- Work with the teams to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs.
- Escalate to leadership where needed and where possible remove impediments for the team(s).
- Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.
- Act as a liaison to assigned program manager and project managers. Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other scrum teams.
- Provide real time feedback to the methodology team based on experiences with software delivery teams.
- Ensures scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues are effectively communicated to the client and project team.
- Use historical velocity and planned velocity to assist team with commitments
- Conducts formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.
- Tracks and measures client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendations.
- Generates appropriate communication, process and educational plans for mitigating the disruption of change while facilitating identification and removal of obstacles to change.
- Identify and remove technical and/or organizational challenges standing in the way of allowing your team to reach its full potential.
- Minimum of 3 years of ScrumMaster experience Certified ScrumMaster (CSM or related certification mandatory)
- 3+ years of information technology experience Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering; or equivalent work experience Experience with cyber security technology, specifically Identity and Access Management systems is a plus
- Thorough understanding and experience working with both agile and waterfall methodologies on large scale, technically complex projects. Ability to deal with multiple projects.
- Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Must be self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems. Data driven analysis skills for measuring and managing delivery.
- Controls a program level view and status and uses the information in Clarity/Open Workbench to communicate on multiple projects and programs at a time.
- Able to use Clarity/Open Workbench tool to determine how the intersection of multiple projects and programs impacts the department.
Akraya is an award-winning IT staffing firm and the staffing partner of choice for many leading companies across the US. We offer comprehensive benefits including Health Insurance (medical, dental, and vision), Cafeteria Plan (HSA, FSA, and dependent care), 401(k) (enrollment subject to eligibility), and Sick Pay (varies based on city and state laws).
If this position is not quite what you're looking for, visit akraya.com and submit a copy of your resume. We will get to work finding you a job that is a better fit at one of our many amazing clients.
Akraya is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Akraya is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.