Hybrid role in Smithfield RI. Our financial services client is seeking an Agile Scrum Master.

Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $53 - $63 / hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• As part of a highly collaborative squad you will advise, mentor, coach and train on performance against agile values, practices and processes to accelerate squad value delivery.
• In partnership with the squad leader you will maintain a backlog, help to remove impediments and facilitate agile ceremonies such as the daily stand up, sprint planning, backlog refinement and retrospectives.
• You will have responsibility for release management coordination and participate in scaling ceremonies and activities as you manage interdependencies across squads and product areas.
• You will examine and drive team performance through metrics and find opportunities for the squad to fully realize the benefits of working in an agile structure.
• You will support the squad by engaging with all team members and product area leadership to reinforce and embed an agile approach and principles into the day-to-day work. This role often requires coordinating the efforts of multiple systems teams to deliver a seamlessly integrated solution to our customers.
• Working collaboratively with Workplace Investing product partners and chapter leaders to enable delivery of the squad's mission through well-executed sprints
• Accelerating overall squad performance, efficiency and value delivered by engaging within and across squads to find opportunities to improve agile maturity and metrics, and providing coaching, training and resources
• Maintaining and updating squad performance metrics (e.g., burn-down charts) and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the squad members and transparency to other partners
• Managing, coordinating logistics for and participating in agile events (e.g., backlog prioritization, sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives and as appropriate, scrum of scrum masters)
• Supporting adoption, and consistent use of enabling tools (e.g., Jira, Mural, MS Teams)
• Organizing and presenting ideas and information logically and concisely to a variety of audiences, including both technical and non-technical individuals
• Working closely with the squad leader to plan and execute on the highest priority work as per the product roadmap
• Handling multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Coaching and mentoring complex squads, regardless of size.
• Participating in a community of practice and providing scrum knowledge to members of your product area and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement within the product area.

Experience Requirements:

• Experience working with or in agile teams with good understanding of agile practices
• Experience working with agile teams delivering technical solutions
• Advanced Jira experience and knowledge of agile practices (Kanban, Lean)
• Bachelor’s degree/undergraduate degree/equivalent required
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) required
• Effectively coach and mentor
• You possess excellent communication and people-interaction skills and can rapidly build trust and positively influence others at all levels of the organization
• You demonstrate a continuous improvement approach
• You are a proven change agent capable of coaching agile practices to teams and individuals from across different functions, experiences, and geographies as they work through new and unfamiliar situations
• You are an effective facilitator and can brainstorm with the team to generate solutions that address challenges and roadblocks to accelerating value delivery
• You are intellectually curious and passionate about learning new skills, and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching