No C2C or 3rd party candidates will be considered

This is a W2-only role.

Job Title: Scrum Master II (intermediate)

Pay Rate: $64/hr W2

Duration: 6 month contract

Location: Greenwood Village, CO - hybrid. Onsite 3 days/week

The Scrum Masters job is to facilitate Agile team events & progress toward team goals, remove impediments to facilitate flow and coach to high performing teams. The SM is a key role within an Agile delivery team as it removes any impediments that obstruct a team’s pursuit of its sprint goals and ultimately deliver a product that generates business value to customers and associates.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Accountable, along with the Agile team, for achievement of PI Objectives

• Track progress and help the team achieve their commitments. Progress is monitored daily when problems are identified work with team to develop corrective actions.

• Manage risk to delivery by raising / resolving impediments in a timely manner

• Ensure team members understand SAFe processes and support the team in following them.

• Ensure product quality expectations are defined and known across the team.

• Work with technical team and product owner balancing the interests of both when issues arise.

• Remove impediments allowing the team to focus on engineering tasks.

• Take the lead on resolving conflicts within the team removing any roadblocks to collaboration.

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum, refinement, retrospective and sprint review events.

• Facilitate retrospective discussions and support continuous improvement efforts.

• Management of external dependencies the team must deal with as identified.

• Maintain the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the Agile team to create a trusting and safe team environment

• Track & report team progress leveraging appropriate Agile metrics

• Cross-functional communication, ensuring transparency of progress and outcomes; report progress sand accomplishment up and across as requested/required

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree - information technology or business or related field

• Exceptional people skills. Comfortable working with a diverse group of people and serve as arbitrator when conflicts arise.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Growth mindset, learning mindset, strategic thinking

• Facilitation skills

• Familiarity with modern software engineering techniques such as Continuous Integration, build, deliver, test-driven development and other automated acceptance testing techniques

• Highly collaborative, solid interpersonal skills and able to work with diverse personality types

• Motivate and enable the Agile teams to be self-organized

EXPERIENCE:

• 2-5 years of Experience serving as Scrum Master

• Banking/Financial industry experience a plus

• Exp: 2 - 5. Experience: Relies on some experience to plan and accomplish tasks.

• Leadership/Contributions: May lead junior resources.

• Reports to: Manager.

• Advanced Degree or Certifications? Maybe.