What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at Global Technical Talent, an Inc. 5000 Company?
Job Title: Scrum Master - Mid-Level
Contract Duration: 9 Months
Pay range: $65.23 - 74.45/hr
Location: Framingham, MA
Work Type: 100% Remote, 8 - 5 pm/ EST
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Off-Price Apparel and Home Retailer
A Fortune 500 company and the leading off-price apparel and home fashion retailer in the U.S. and worldwide. With over 4,500 stores in nine countries and four e-commerce sites, our client offers various products at unbeatable prices. The company is committed to creating an inclusive workplace and being a responsible corporate citizen.
About GTT:
GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. As a Native American-owned, economically disadvantaged corporation, we highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our clients are Fortune 500 banking, insurance, financial services, and technology companies, along with some of the nation's largest life sciences, biotech, utility, and retail companies across the US and Canada. We look forward to helping you land your next great career opportunity!
25-19739:
Contract Duration: 9 Months
Pay range: $65.23 - 74.45/hr
Location: Framingham, MA
Work Type: 100% Remote, 8 - 5 pm/ EST
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- As a true servant leader, the Scrum Master is primarily responsible for ensuring the Agile/Scrum team achieves its goals.
- Communicates status to customers, team, and management as needed.
- Exhibits the behaviors of an Agile leader with an Agile approach. Helps the team embrace core Agile values and principles.
- Leads scrum teams for medium to complex deliveries.
- Leads the team's efforts in relentless improvement and facilitates the team's retrospective.
- Facilitates all the team's meetings and ceremonies such as Daily Standups, Sprint Retrospectives etc., as well as meetings and activities spanning across multiple teams
- Removes roadblocks, many of which will be beyond the team's authority or will require support from other teams.
- Coordinates with various teams such as Infrastructure & Operations, Security, Landscape Services, Network, Performance Testing, Software Packaging, Product, and Engineering teams to resolve dependencies, blockers.
- Ensures that goals and scope are understood by everyone on the Agile/Scrum Team.
- Ensures the Team understands scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.
- Improves team performance by identifying, managing, and supporting the resolution of team impediments and risks.
- Displays an engineering mindset and systems thinking while understanding the economic view.
- Embraces a continuous improvement mindset and highlights opportunities to improve the efficiency of Scrum teams.
- Leads and facilitates the deployment of changes to Production by adhering to the processes.
- 5-10 years experience as a Scrum Master
- Experienced and adept user of Agile Lifecycle Management tools, particularly JIRA Align, JIRA Cloud, and Confluence (required)
- Communicative and collaborative - excellent interpersonal and group facilitation skills, including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types.
- Assertive - must be able to ensure agile and scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, and comfortable with being a voice of reason and authority.
- Situationally Aware - must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to team and to management, where appropriate.
- Creativity, initiative, and flexibility tempered by pragmatism, patience, and attention to detail.
- Strong Facilitation Skills - ability to run improvement/problem-solving sessions across multiple teams and larger groups.
- Retail POS and payments experience (heavy preference)
- Oracle Xstore (preference)
- Agile Scrum and SAFe (preference); SAFe is a strong preference being that is what our Client does
- Fully remote; need to be flexible as they may need to work global hours because they may work with a UK scrum team (addres adhoc requests); but would majority of the time work schedule would be 8-5 pm EST
- Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
- 401k Retirement Fund
Off-Price Apparel and Home Retailer
A Fortune 500 company and the leading off-price apparel and home fashion retailer in the U.S. and worldwide. With over 4,500 stores in nine countries and four e-commerce sites, our client offers various products at unbeatable prices. The company is committed to creating an inclusive workplace and being a responsible corporate citizen.
About GTT:
GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. As a Native American-owned, economically disadvantaged corporation, we highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our clients are Fortune 500 banking, insurance, financial services, and technology companies, along with some of the nation's largest life sciences, biotech, utility, and retail companies across the US and Canada. We look forward to helping you land your next great career opportunity!
25-19739:
Salary : $65 - $74
