Project Manager

Job Role: Scrum Master / Project Manager Location: Midtown/NYC (OR) Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid - 3 days a week) Duration: 12 Months Client: Banking firm Experience: 10 years
Job Description:
The scrum master's responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.
To be successful as a scrum master, you should have a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively manage and mentor development teams. An outstanding scrum master should have excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills.
Scrum Master Responsibilities:

• Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
• Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

Scrum Master Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
• Certified scrum master, SAFe preferred.
• 6 years of experience as a scrum master or in a similar role.
• Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Excellent people and project management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Scrum Team Support

• Guides the Scrum Team's focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done.
• Removes impediments to the Scrum Team's progress.
• Ensures that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
• Shields the team from external influences.
• Guides the team on how to use agile values, agile principles, and agile framework practices to delight customers and contribute towards building a culture of trust, respect, simplicity, courage, transparency, and agility.
• Helps find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management.
• Helps the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items.
• Helps establish empirical product planning for a complex environment.
• Assesses the agile health of the team and coach them to higher levels of fluency at a sustainable pace for the team and department.
• Embodies agile behaviors and practices while exhibiting an innovative attitude and an aptitude to embrace change and improve the practices and processes of the team daily.
• Oversees the scrum process, coaches the team; facilitates transparent and adaptive culture.

Communication/Collaboration

• Facilitates discussion, decision making, conflict resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Builds a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of punishment.
• Build effective partnership with the Product Owner and provide mentoring and support especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and release planning, aligning delivery expectations with all stakeholders.
• Coordinates with Project Management.
• Participate in the Scrum of Scrums.

Position Qualifications:

• A Bachelor s degree from an accredited university OR a high school diploma/GED and 10 years of progressive relevant experience
• 8 years of Project Management or Scrum Master experience including managing projects with cross functional teams
• 8 years of Technology experience
• 4 Years Financial experience
• 4 years of experience in delivering products or projects in a leadership or project team role
• 3 years of experience with Agile tools
  
• 3 years vendor management and financial management experience

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