What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at Blue Peak Group LLC?
Overview
The Scrum Master promotes and supports the agile process within and outside the squad. This includes:
- Work with organizational resources outside the squad to help them interact effectively with the squad, remove impediments and protect them from organizational bureaucracy
- The Scrum Master coaches the Agile squad and the product owner on the Agile process, such as writing useful user stories and managing the backlog
- They foster a collaborative culture and ensure the squad regularly celebrates success
- For a newly formed squad the scrum master role may be a full time activity. As the squad matures the scrum master can start to contribute some time to squad deliveries
- Manage blockers, obstacles and dependencies.
- Bring together stakeholders for alignment meeting
- Organize training
- Report on squad improvements
- Facilitate retrospective to improve squad dynamics
- Facilitate creation and maintenance of squad artefacts such as backlog, definitions and norms etc..
- Managing the end to end software development lifecycle include dependencies management, issues/risk management, and key stakeholder management.
Skills Required:
- 7-10 years program/project management experience in both Agile and Waterfall
- Financial Services experience
- Experience in program/project management for complex development projects with multiple different technology platforms
Skills Desired:
· Project / program management
· Strong communications and writing skills
· Strong analytical skills
· Ability to liaise with diverse groups (tech, ops, business, etc)
· Financial management and forecasting
· Risk management
· Problem solving
· Attention to detail
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $75.00 - $80.00 per hour
Ability to Commute:
- Alpharetta, GA 30005 (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $75 - $80
