Job Id: 3314 L4
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Seattle (hybrid) Local WA Candidates ONLY
Title: Certified Scrum Master Agile Project Manager Servant Leadership Kanban exp in Financial Firm: 12 Mts Cont in Seattle WA
Level 4 715 years of Industry Experience
The Scrum Master will assist multiple Agile development teams with facilitating and coordinating Agile Scrum processes in addition to guiding and coaching the team on Agile Scrum principles and practices. They will work with teams across the organization to understand requirements and will facilitate planning and estimation with the development teams. The Scrum Master will utilize Jira to track and measure completion of work and provide status updates to key stakeholders.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies: daily standups sprint planning demos and retrospectives.
- Assist in backlog grooming to ensure requirements are known and stories are sized.
- Track and communicate Epic/Story status risks and issues to primary stakeholders and project management.
- Implement and track metrics to facilitate delivery of highquality solutions on time.
- Provide estimations for work completion as well as communication of potential tradeoff decisions for prioritization.
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks and guide team to higher scrum maturity.
- Remove roadblocks and resolve conflicts that impede the teams progress.
- Lead the effective and efficient delivery of large complex crossfunctional projects and manage implementation activities for concurrent workstreams.
- Anticipate bottlenecks drive issue resolution identify risk provide escalation management anticipate and make tradeoffs and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
- Demonstrated ability to read and interpret technical information.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- 3 years of experience leading Agile teams in a Agile Project Management/Scrum Master role.
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done Epics user stories automated testing and backlog refinement)
- Excellent communication skills and servant leadership skills
- BA/BS in Business Computer Science Information Systems Management or related area of study from an accredited college or university with applicable agile and project management experience.
- IT delivery background with software development experience
- Experience with Agile/Kanban Software Development.
- Certification in Agile methodologies such as PMIACP or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is a plus.
- Financial Services background is a plus.