What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at Lighthouse Technology Services?
Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Scrum Master position! This is a 5 month contract opportunity and will be hybrid in Wilmington, DE. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.
What You'll Be Doing :
- Provide leadership to multiple cross-functional agile teams through effective application of Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming (XP).
- Strengthen understanding of effective practices, theories and techniques to support continuous improvement.
- Educate and coach teams to create an environment that fosters self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency and continuous improvement.
- Visualize and communicate team information to keep their work and impediments visible to stakeholders.
- Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, information radiators, etc., to help create high performing teams.
- Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the agile teams, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives.
- Curate team-level coaching content used to guide teams regarding agile practices.
- Facilitate meetings with the teams for purposes of idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving and alignment.
- Help the teams gain transparency into their workflow through appropriate use of information radiators.
- Address blocking issues that are beyond the teams authority, or require support from other teams, so the teams remain focused on achieving their goals.
- Work with other Agile Leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization.
- Provide mentorship to less experienced Scrum Masters.
- Seek and host a variety of individual and team learning opportunities, such as communities of practice, conferences, meetups, reading and classroom training.
- Bachelors degree and a minimum of 4 years experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience
- Depth of knowledge in at least two technology team roles (project manager, user experience, business analyst, developer, testing, deployment).
- Prior background of experience in Data
- Experience with SAFe and basic agile metrics
- Prior experience utilizing Jira
- Prior experience utilizing PowerBI
- Prior experience fostering team self-organization and continuous improvement.
- Expertise in Agile and Lean principles and practices.
- Experience developing / managing digital capabilities.
- Experience with Design Thinking principles.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Prior experience leading through influence.
- Scrum Certifications a plus!
What You'll Need to Have :
Pay Range : $55-$70 / hr
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Salary : $55 - $70
