Scrum Master

Role: Scrum Master

Location: Charlotte, NC

Type: Contract

Description

• Facilitates the scrum process on scrum teams with significant cross-functional impacts involving project, non-project, or maintenance work.
• Guides the scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
• Uses empirical data to help the team(s) assess their Scrum Maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
• Proactively addresses systemic impediments to team agility and guides the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blockers.
• Coaches scrum team(s) to deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met.
• Partners with Product Owner(s) to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which may include stories from multiple projects.
• Facilitates Scrum of Scrums.
• Facilitates and is accountable for owning the Scrum and/or Scaled Agile ceremonies for the scrum team(s).
• Partners with Product Owners, Program or Project Managers to communicate delivery of work product from the scrum team(s) and escalates key risks and issues
  
  

Requirements

• 6 years as a practicing scrum master
• Experience in Financial Services Industry ~ mid-large size organizations
• 8 years business experience in a matrixed management environment (e.g., product development, project management, implementation)
• Deep understanding of full SecDevOps and DevOps
• Platform and cross team dependency management
• Test Driven Development
• Behavior Driven Development
• Accredited Scrum Master Certification
• Accredited SAFe and/or LeSS Certification
• SDLC processes knowledge
• Work breakdown and sizing methodologies
• Agile based requirements management – process & tools
• Code quality and scanning
• Test automation
• Code branching/merging
• Release management
  
  

Years of experience needed –

Technical Skills

Screening Questions:

Process Skills

About Mphasis

Mphasis applies next-generation technology to help enterprises transform businesses globally. Customer centricity is foundational to Mphasis and is reflected in the Mphasis’ Front2Back™ Transformation approach. Front2Back™ uses the exponential power of cloud and cognitive to provide hyper-personalized (C=X2C2TM=1) digital experience to clients and their end customers. Mphasis’ Service Transformation approach helps ‘shrink the core’ through the application of digital technologies across legacy environments within an enterprise, enabling businesses to stay ahead in a changing world. Mphasis’ core reference architectures and tools, speed and innovation with domain expertise and specialization are key to building strong relationships with marquee clients.

Skills

PRIMARY COMPETENCY : Agile PRIMARY SKILL : Certified Scrum Master (CSM) PRIMARY SKILL PERCENTAGE : 100

Other Details

Deputation Location : US~North Carolina~Charlotte