Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title : Scrum Master II

Location : Buffalo, NY

Hire Type : Contingent

Pay Range : $40.92 - $68.19

Work Type : Full-time

Work Model : Hybrid

Work Schedule : Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm

Recruiter Contact : Brian Fesmire, [email protected]

Nature & Scope:

Positional Overview

Are you a dynamic and experienced Scrum Master looking to make a significant impact in a fast-paced and innovative environment? Our client is seeking a dedicated professional to provide servant-leadership and mentorship to multiple cross-functional agile teams through effective application of Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming (XP). The ideal candidate will strengthen understanding of effective practices, theories and techniques to support continuous improvement, educates and coaches teams to create an environment that fosters self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency and continuous improvement, visualizes, communicates and radiates team information to keep their work and impediments visible to stakeholders. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, mentor talented teams, and contribute to the transformation of their development processes. If you thrive in a challenging yet rewarding setting and are passionate about Agile methodologies, we want to hear from you. Apply now!

Role & Responsibility:

Tasks That Will Lead to Your Success

• Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices including user stories,

retrospectives, story mapping,

• Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, information radiators, etc., to help create high performing teams.
• Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the team, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration and retrospectives.
• Facilitate meetings with the team for idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving and alignment.
• Help the team gain transparency into their workflow through appropriate use of information radiators.
• Address blocking issues that are beyond the team’s authority, or require support from other teams, so the team remains focused on achieving their goals.
• Work with other Agile leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization.
• of practice, conferences, meetups, reading and classroom training.
• Design, implement, maintain and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.

Skills & Experience

Qualifications That Will Help You Thrive

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years’ experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 8 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years’ experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience.
• Excellent JIRA/Confluence knowledge and skills.
• Experience working on Infrastructure Projects.
• Experience working with SAFe teams.
• Prior experience fostering team self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices.
• Experience developing/managing digital capabilities.
• Understanding of Design Thinking principles.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Prior experience leading through influence.

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