Scrum Master III - W2 Eligible Only

Our client is seeking a Scrum Master to join their team in Charlotte, NC.

W2 Eligible Only
No C2C or sponsorship

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.
• Facilitates Agile ceremonies for 1-2 teams.
• Uses historical velocity and planned velocity to assist team with commitments.
• Works with the project sponsor and product owner to determine staffing requirements.
• Assist with identifying which resources need to be procured outside the organization.
• Involves team in identifying and removing impediments and known risks through analysis and prioritization.
• Maintains risk register and escalates where needed.
• Utilizes standardized tools and techniques for estimating costs associated with a project including physical, financial and human capital costs.
• Continuously monitors the actual cost of a project versus the budget.
• Reviews expenditures and evaluates factors that may potentially cause cost changes.
• Conducts in-depth root cause analysis of project budget discrepancies.
• Effectively utilizes progress indicators such as burn-down and burn-up charts.
• Utilizes the team’s definition of done to guide the team during their sprint commitments.
• Uses collaborative engagement techniques.
• Fosters self-accountability.
• Escalates where needed.
• Ensures scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues are effectively communicated to the client and project team.
• Looks for opportunities to teach and mentor the team.
• Guides the team by providing meaningful feedback.
• Participates in setting best practices.
• Effectively facilitates retrospectives to pull actionable changes for the team.
• 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.

Skill/Experience/Education:

Mandatory Skills

• Minimum of 1-3 years of ScrumMaster experience.

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM or related certification strongly preferred).
• 3+ years of information technology experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering; or equivalent work experience.
• 3 or more years managing projects.
• Thorough understanding of agile and waterfall methodologies, values, and procedures.
• 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.
• Experience with relevant business software (e.g. Microsoft Office applications, Team Foundation Server).
• Experience using Microsoft Team Foundation Server Agile, Jira or similar tool.
• 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.
• Able to use the Clarity/Open Workbench tool develop departmental budgets.
• Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
• Ability to understand and communicate technical issues.
• Highly adaptable to changing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams.
• Situational awareness of when to listen and when to be assertive.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
• Ability to keep team engaged and on task.

Preferred Skills

• Prior experience working in a diverse setup with multiple lines of business