Role: Scrum Master (SM Agile Practitioner)
Location: Washington DC/Remote
Job Type: Full Time
Must have: Scrum Data Projects experience Client Facing
Position Summary:
- You will be leading 23 scrum teams across a program/project and helping them adopt the agile mindset and practices.
- The ideal candidate should be highly proficient in Lean and Agile values & principles.
- Experienced in agile frameworks and related tools. Train coach mentor across project program verticals.
- Looking for selfmotivated leader with expertise in shaping the teams to selfmanaged and crossfunctional.
- The ideal candidate should have exposure to Agile Software development Agile Project/Program Mgmt./Delivery.
- Can track the work give transparency and visibility to internalexternal stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Can lead 23 scrum/Kanban/XP teams and inculcate the awareness of agility within the team.
- Drive all the ceremonies for the scrum teams and track the backlog conversion work.
- Helping team and PO/Team in story writing and organizing the requirement components
- Coach teams through the journey of agile adoption with appropriate frameworks
- Evaluate and advise Agile Frameworks tools and techniques to team as applicable.
- Organizing Metrics for team and stakeholders to have transparency and visibility in release work.
- Helping verticals and organizations in doing the agile maturity assessment periodically
- Helping team in removing the impediments for smoother scrum/iteration cycles
- Collaborating closely with client and stakeholders on a daytoday basis doing agile solutioning for deliveries
Qualifications:
- 11 to 14 years of overall experience in the IT Industry(preferably prior experience in Agile project management)
- 4 5 years of experience as scrum master (SM) influencing agile project management deliveries
- Candidate should have end to end proficiency in creating stories across Analytics/Data engineering/BI/UX/UI domains.
- Should have experience in estimating/orchestrating cloud projects
- Good to have Atlassian JIRA MS ADO Atlassian Confluence MS SharePoint Rally MS Excel skills.
- Mandatory: CSM PSMI/II/III/SAFe LeSS RTE/PMIACP etc. Active certification is a must.
- Good to have: Relevant Agile advanced certifications (Lean/Kanban/Scrum Alliance/ Scrum.org/Disciplined Agile etc.)
- Experience working with multiple delivery and business partners teams agile project management best practices.
- Some understanding of design thinking and systems thinking preferable.
- Working Knowledge of tools like MS Office Power BI reports.
- Outstanding Communication skills both written and verbal
- Experience in Client Facing roles mandatory.