Scrum Master

Scrum Master

6+ Contract-to-Hire

Brooksource is in search of a Scrum Master for our Fortune 100 Financial Services company. You will be responsible for the following components:

Job Description:

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Scrum or Agile.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale, or longer-term Scrum Master challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.
• Understanding of how to effectively partner/ collaborate with key stakeholders to mature the acceptance of accelerated delivery.
• Demonstrated reasonable level of technical and business understanding to optimize credibility with teams and managers.
• Demonstrable experience and expertise driving engineering practices that includes not limited to TDD, BDD, Pair programming, CI/CD, Automation deployment.
• Rigorous focus driving Unit testing and functional automation as part of DOD
• Demonstrated understanding and practical experience with JIRA (and JIRA Portfolio)

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Scrum or Agile experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
• Scrum Master Certification
• Understanding of Alignment of Agile practices
• Experience working in Compliance.
• Excellent communication and ability to work across different levels and stakeholders.
• Experience leading scrum or/and Kanban teams.
• People Skills

Desired Skills:

• Scaled Agile (SAFe, Scrum at Scale, LESS) experience.
• Change Management (PROSCI, Kotter, etc)
• Good understanding of Lean engineering practices
• Guide the teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
• Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
• Oversee systemic impediments to team agility and guide the teams on methods to escalate.