Dallas Texas /

• Project Management – Scrum Master (2 Openings)

  Hybrid sitting in Hartford or Des Moines.
  (Hybrid – 3 days in office)

  6 month contract and right to hire

   

  POSITION OVERVIEW

  Our client's seeks a Scrum Master to join our Digit Program as we grow and mature in our Agile journey.
  In this exciting role, your expertise will help lead Agile best practices for multiple teams assisting with workflow, problem solving and team efficiency while influencing a continuous improvement mindset.
  
  
  Key responsibilities will include:

  Influence Agile mindset through coaching, mentoring, and fostering Agile values and practices.
  

  • Lead the application of agility and Agile best practices including Scrum and/or Kanban.
     
  • Guide Agile teams to deliver planned product increments and make certain team is progressing towards set objectives.
    
  • Provide reporting and metrics for transparency into team progress and impediments and promote data driven decision-making.
     
  • Lead teams through improvement opportunities, remove team impediments, resolve conflicts, manage risks.
    
  • Understands product planning in an inspect and adapt environment, and Partners with the Product Owner to ensure the backlog items are prioritized based on maximum business value.
    
  • Ensures team adherence to Agile principle and promotes open communication among team members and stakeholders generating a positive team dynamic.
     
  • Organizes and facilitates Sprints, identifies improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and quality while managing risk
  • Tracks and communicates the overall team progress providing visibility to stakeholders.
    
  • Facilitate team for better creativity, drive innovation and tries to improve the efficiency of the development teams
  • Embrace teams with various levels of maturity and lead the development of resources and teams to improve Agile maturity.
    
  • Lead Scrum of Scrum to manage cross team dependencies.
    
  • Arranges daily stand-up meetings, facilitates/schedules meetings, demo, and decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
    Matrix reporting provides coaching/feedback to ensure team success.
    
  • Project Management experience with planning, leading, and executing projects from start to finish, ensuring completion within agreed upon timeframe and budget is a plus.
    
• Requirements:

  QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's degree preferred.
    
  • Three years' experience in a Scrum Master role with application of Agile practices including planning and delivery of multiple Epics with application of various tools and techniques.
    
  • Working knowledge of software development processes and procedures

   

  Our Client is an equal opportunity employer, does not discriminate in employment on any basis that is prohibited by federal, state, or local laws.
  

  • Working knowledge of Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Test-driven Development, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated -Testing, etc.
    
  • Must be able to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical users at all levels of an organization.
    
  • Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
    
  • Must be a dynamic and self-starting individual who is able to work independently or as part of a team with minimal guidance and direction.
    
  • Strong communication skills, work ethic and high level of personal integrity and accountability with ability to earn trust while influencing team to improve and adopt new practices
  • Strong collaborator a must with expertise to work with multiple cross functional teams.