Scrum Master II

Description

Candidates need to be local to Cincinnati

The primary responsibilities and role for Scrum Master is to act as a servant leader and coach for the Consultant team. They will educate the team in principles and practices to ensure Agile process is followed. The Scrum Master will eliminate impediments to allow the team to focus on achieving goals committed. Foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics and continuous improvement. Enable team to self-organize, self-manage & deliver via Lean-Agile practices. Support and reinforce the rules of Scrum, built-in quality practices, WIP limits and all other process rules the team has agreed on. Foster collaboration and transparence between teams, internal and external. Facilitate team progress toward daily team and iteration goals in support of objectives and key results (OKR). Lead team efforts in relentless improvements through retrospectives and problem-solving techniques. Lastly, they will Foster a team culture of technical discipline and craftsmanship to constantly improve the quality of their deliverables.

Must Haves

• Great communication skills

• Strong agile experience

• 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master

Nice to Have

• Any experience working on data product teams, as this is a data heavy project

• Scrum master experience in a complex large-scale enterprise

• Experience in an agile environment in other roles; such as quality assurance, development, product owner, or as an agile coach

• Proven knowledge and experience with agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures

• Demonstrated leadership ability to coach and mentor the team to reach their highest potential. Excellent team player and team builder

• Ability to work with all levels of the organization

• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work collaboratively with diverse personality types

• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level and communicate agile methodologies within the organization

• Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills

• Strong ability to manage multiple agile teams and ensure a proper balance between PMO (Project Management office, business and technology teams and management)

• Must be self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex problems

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail

Key Responsibilities

• Guide, coach and motivate the team with the goal of increasing productivity

• Organize and lead Scrum ceremonies

• Oversee and manage scope, timeline, quality, goals and deliverables that support business goals

• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments

• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of productive conflict resolution and problem solving

• Facilitate discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution

• Prepare and present reports on the progress and success

• Coordinate activities with other teams across the program

• Partner with and support the Product Owner

• Participate in the Scrum of Scrums and partner with other Scrum Masters

• Coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

• Organize and facilitate planning and coordination including release / Potentially Shippable Increments planning, iteration planning, daily stand-ups, iteration review/demos, and retrospectives

• Ensure teams are held accountable to agile SDLC (Software Delivery Life Cycle) tenants and their internal working agreements including use of appropriate tools, standards and best practices

• Promote and demonstrate core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility

• Ensure the team is tracking and communicating team progress and metrics to the appropriate resources.

• Facilitate and enable an environment of collaboration and creativity

• Support and empower the team to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.

• Empower the team to self-organize around achieving their commitments

• Identify and remove any impediments/distractions that interfere with the team's ability to deliver against their commitments

• Challenge and enable the team to continuously improve through intentional and data driven inspect and adapt cycles (retrospectives)

Skills

Scrum, Agile, Jira, Agile methodology, User stories, Scrum methodology, Sprint

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Candidates need to be local to Cincinnati

• Must have great communication skills, strong agile background , 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master. This is a data heavy team, so any experience working on data product teams would be helpful.

• This Scrum Master will be supporting Core Insights, as well as a team working on NGPOS (Point of Sale) within Merchandising with the Customer Experience (CX/MX) pillar.

o The Merchandising Core Insights team is focused on creating reporting leveraging Power BI that our Merchandising business team can use to build insights that will help them to make strategic decisions around how we merchandise our products. The second team is in a different area of Merchandising and will be working with Item data for our POS system.

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.