Position: Scrum Master
Location: Niles IL (Hybrid)
Duration: 6 Months Contract
Job Description:
- Educate team members and stakeholders on effective collaboration with scrum teams.
- Act as a change leader embodying and promoting agile values within the organization.
- Identify and remove blockers that hinder team progress.
- Facilitate discussions to resolve issues and development impediments.
- Foster an environment of teamwork and open communication.
- Conduct daily standup meetings to discuss blockers plans and progress.
- Hold sprint reviews to assess performance and capture feedback.
- Guide sprint planning sessions to elaborate on user stories acceptance criteria and effort estimation.
- Schedule and conduct retrospectives to identify opportunities for improvement and implement action items.
- Partner with the Product Owner Product Manager scrum team and stakeholders to ensure alignment.
- Promote the use of product tools including Azure DevOps ensuring consistency and transparency.
- Navigate IT processes across the organization while guiding teams.
- Maintain open communication with leadership operational teams product leaders and project stakeholders.
- Follow up on action items to ensure accountability.
- Administer the scrum board ensuring cards are updated and tools are utilized effectively.
- Create and maintain necessary artifacts for scrum agile and product models.
- Encourage the maintenance of the product backlog and protect the sprint backlog and product increment.
- Guide multiple medium to largescale projects through sprints iterations and phases.
- Manage dependencies with external partners and remote project teams.
- Initiate and facilitate project kickoff and inception activities.
- Oversee communication and dependencies between Scrum Teams and crossfunctional teams.
- Provide oversight of programs to meet business financial objectives.
- Stay current with new tools techniques and methodologies in the agile community.
- Be available during normal working hours regardless of work location.
Required Qualifications:
- 2 years as a Scrum Master with a valid Scrum Master certification (CSM).
- 2 years working with outsource partners.
- Proven experience in running projects using Scrum and Kanban methodologies managing multiple dependencies and remote team members.
- Learning mindset with a solid understanding of product models.
- Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
- Strong problemsolving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing challenges.
- Bachelors degree with 35 years of IT Project Management experience or HS Diploma/GED with 7 years of IT Project Management experience.