What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Lead position at Apex Systems?
Job#: 2057811
Job Description:
Job Title: Scrum Lead
Location: HYBRID in Raleigh NC
Rate: $45.32 to $52.17/hr
About Us: Our Global Client is committed to driving innovation and excellence in product delivery. We foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement, where creativity and resourcefulness are highly valued. Join our dynamic team and be a part of our journey towards delivering exceptional business value.
Role Summary: The Scrum Lead is responsible for the successful delivery of projects and initiatives within our organization. This role involves close collaboration with stakeholders, engineering, UI/UX, and product management teams to facilitate project delivery. The Scrum Lead also provides agile coaching support to assigned teams, ensuring effective and efficient delivery processes.
Key Responsibilities:
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at [email protected] or 844-463-6178.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
4400 Cox Road
Suite 200
Glen Allen, Virginia 23060
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at [email protected] (Do not submit resumes or solicit consultants to this email address). UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Apex Systems.
Job Description:
Job Title: Scrum Lead
Location: HYBRID in Raleigh NC
Rate: $45.32 to $52.17/hr
About Us: Our Global Client is committed to driving innovation and excellence in product delivery. We foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement, where creativity and resourcefulness are highly valued. Join our dynamic team and be a part of our journey towards delivering exceptional business value.
Role Summary: The Scrum Lead is responsible for the successful delivery of projects and initiatives within our organization. This role involves close collaboration with stakeholders, engineering, UI/UX, and product management teams to facilitate project delivery. The Scrum Lead also provides agile coaching support to assigned teams, ensuring effective and efficient delivery processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Project Delivery: Accountable for the day-to-day support and delivery of projects within the development team.
- Agile Coaching: Provide agile coaching to the team and product partners, driving the effectiveness of agile ceremonies.
- Continuous Improvement: Lead the team in identifying and implementing better ways of working, focusing on iterative and incremental value delivery.
- Expectation Management: Manage expectations on delivery and capacity, communicating progress towards goals and milestones.
- Issue Resolution: Identify and manage issues, risks, and dependencies early, working to resolve them in a timely manner.
- Team Support: Assist teams in staying focused and organized, facilitating continuous improvement through regular retrospectives and metrics analysis.
- Cross-Team Coordination: Help with cross-team communications and coordinate dependencies, tracking meeting minutes, actions, follow-ups, and summaries.
- Commitment to Lean Agile Practices: Champion ingenuity at all levels, creating a culture of innovation and learning where it is okay to fail.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present information concisely and effectively to a broad audience, including senior and executive management.
- Business Results Oriented: Outcomes-focused, self-motivated, and autonomous, with a strong understanding of the connection to business value.
- Project Management: Strong organizational, project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments.
- Building Relationships: Ability to build meaningful and trusting relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders and teams.
- Problem Solving: Advanced experience in leading teams to troubleshoot and diagnose complex project issues.
- Time Management: Effectively manage time and resources to ensure work is completed efficiently.
- Adaptability: Maintain effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment.
- Project Management: Expertise in scheduling, release planning, risk identification and mitigation, influencing, resource management, project planning, and change management.
- Agile: Deep knowledge of Agile philosophy and principles, experience in coaching teams and stakeholders in Agile practices, and familiarity with delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and scaled frameworks (Scrum-at-Scale, SAFe, LeSS).
- Soft Skills: Strong executive presence, facilitation skills, written and verbal communication, stakeholder relations, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Self-Starter: Proactively sees work and gets it done to support project goals without waiting for direction.
- Detail-Oriented: Capable of juggling multiple tasks, both big and small.
- Organized: Keeps projects straight and moving forward.
- Effective Time Manager: Manages available time (self and team) to get the right work done at the right time.
- Effective Communicator: Ensures the right message/request gets to the right people in a timely manner.
- Leadership: Not afraid to jump into situations to ensure the right outcome, setting the tone with a sense of urgency and calm influence.
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at [email protected] or 844-463-6178.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
4400 Cox Road
Suite 200
Glen Allen, Virginia 23060
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at [email protected] (Do not submit resumes or solicit consultants to this email address). UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Apex Systems.
Salary : $45 - $52
