What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at Zealogics.com?
The Scrum Master promotes and supports the agile process within and outside the squad. This includes:
• Work with organizational resources outside the squad to help them interact effectively with the squad, remove impediments and protect them from organizational bureaucracy
• The Scrum Master coaches the Agile squad and the product owner on the Agile process, such as writing useful user stories and managing the backlog
• They foster a collaborative culture and ensure the squad regularly celebrates success
• For a newly formed squad the scrum master role may be a full time activity. As the squad matures the scrum master can start to contribute some time to squad deliveries
• Manage blockers, obstacles and dependencies.
• Bring together stakeholders for alignment meeting
• Organize training
• Report on squad improvements
• Facilitate retrospective to improve squad dynamics
• Facilitate creation and maintenance of squad artefacts such as backlog, definitions and norms etc..
• Managing the end to end software development lifecycle include dependencies management, issues/risk management, and key stakeholder management.
Skills Required:
• 7-10 years program/project management experience in both Agile and Waterfall
• Financial Services experience
• Experience in program/project management for complex development projects with multiple different technology platforms
Skills Desired:
· Project / program management
· Strong communications and writing skills
· Strong analytical skills
· Ability to liaise with diverse groups (tech, ops, business, etc)
· Financial management and forecasting
· Risk management
· Problem solving
· Attention to detail
Rate range - $60-$65
• Work with organizational resources outside the squad to help them interact effectively with the squad, remove impediments and protect them from organizational bureaucracy
• The Scrum Master coaches the Agile squad and the product owner on the Agile process, such as writing useful user stories and managing the backlog
• They foster a collaborative culture and ensure the squad regularly celebrates success
• For a newly formed squad the scrum master role may be a full time activity. As the squad matures the scrum master can start to contribute some time to squad deliveries
• Manage blockers, obstacles and dependencies.
• Bring together stakeholders for alignment meeting
• Organize training
• Report on squad improvements
• Facilitate retrospective to improve squad dynamics
• Facilitate creation and maintenance of squad artefacts such as backlog, definitions and norms etc..
• Managing the end to end software development lifecycle include dependencies management, issues/risk management, and key stakeholder management.
Skills Required:
• 7-10 years program/project management experience in both Agile and Waterfall
• Financial Services experience
• Experience in program/project management for complex development projects with multiple different technology platforms
Skills Desired:
· Project / program management
· Strong communications and writing skills
· Strong analytical skills
· Ability to liaise with diverse groups (tech, ops, business, etc)
· Financial management and forecasting
· Risk management
· Problem solving
· Attention to detail
Rate range - $60-$65
Salary : $60 - $65
