What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at TALENT Software Services?
The selected candidate will:
This position requires a fingerprint-based background check.
- Drives consistent project delivery through the entire project lifecycle, including: project plans, release plans, resource allocation, and management of project risks, scope, schedule, and delivery of value.
- Coordinates Agile Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Refinement, and Release Planning.
- Tracks and communicates project's progress from a schedule, cost, and risk perspective to the project team, stakeholders, and management.
- Establishes an environment where the teams can be effective and helps removing obstacles.
- Protects the team from outside interruptions and distractions.
- Ensures a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team.
- Tracks and reports team velocity and other project metrics.
- Promotes continuous improvement and helps teams to increase productivity.
- Helps Product Owner and team with Product backlog management.
- Adheres to VDOT and VITA project management practices as defined.
- Additional responsibilities as assigned.
- Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand project requirements and support data management needs.
- Ensure data is collected, stored, and processed securely and in compliance with all applicable regulations.
- Analyze data and provide insights to support decision-making by project management teams.
- Provide training and support for end-users to ensure the platform is used effectively.
- Demonstrable capability and experience in planning, implementing and maintenance of local master data systems and processes across business units and functions.
- Understanding of data and leveraging it to deliver business value. Ability to discuss requirements with data teams
- Experience in data governance concepts, and data governance implementations.
- Ability to use agile approach and methodology to drive master data governance processes.
- Ensure documentation of requirements and uses cases, facilitate design workshops for assigned project.
- Ensure definition of test objectives, designed test plans and test cases for assigned project.
- Provide the management of project milestones and deliverables for on-time and on-budget delivery.
- Define, measure, and clearly communicate progress with metrics.
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of Agile project management principles and practices.
- Experience managing cloud-based solutions for data management and analytics.
- Ability to work with customers, understand their business practices and manage their expectations.
- Ability to set clear performance standards and hold team members accountable, while keeping team engaged and on track.
- Ability to help Product Owners to create and prioritize Product Backlog.
- Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.
- Strong analytical, organizational and decision-making skills.
- Ability to analyze and document business and system processes.
- Ability to balance the competing demands for quality, scope, schedule, and cost.
- Well-versed with Scrum and Kanban Agile methodologies.
- PMP and CSM Certifications required.
- SAFe Certification preferred.
- Experience with SAFe framework is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and software systems, including Azure and Google Cloud.
- Experience with data processing and storage tools (e.g., Spark, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Event Hub, Azure SQL, Synapse).
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Knowledge of transportation data and project management with transportation data is a plus.
- Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery(networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning) is preferred.
- Experience managing large, multi-stream projects.
- PMP or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers for Category 4Projects. See: http://www.vita.virginia.gov/oversight/projects/default.aspx?id=589
- Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
This position requires a fingerprint-based background check.
