Role: Scrum Master
Location: Atlanta GA (Please share candidates from East Coast side only)
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Act as scrum master for several scrum teams within the R&D organization driving backlog prioritization sprint planning retrospective and demos with the stakeholders
- Communicate and align with department leaders and stakeholders on project sprint plans product roadmap status change requests issues and risks
- Follows standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.
- Identify project management process improvement opportunities incorporating lessons learned into future projects/sprints.
- Maintain scope change recognizing issues and risks and/or requests from key stakeholders
- Hosts all scrum ceremonies and Coaches team members on scrum best practice
- Remove roadblocks throughout the sprint cycle
Required Skills (Technical Competency):
- Strong experience as a scrum master delivering software projects
- 5 years (preferred) of experience in managing Software or IT related projects and must demonstrate a leadership role in at least two or three successful projects that were delivered on time and on budget.
- Experience managing cloudbased project implementations with one or more of the cloud providers like Azure GCP or AWS
- High degree of proficiency in PM software Microsoft Office applications and presentations
- Experience with the modern Project Management and Agile methodologies
- Experience operating in a highly matrixed & crossfunctional organization highly preferred
- BA/BS or other technical discipline