Contract period- 12 Months
Location - New Freedom, Pennsylvania, 17349
Client- Johnson Controls
Shift- Day Shift
Job Title: Scrum Master - Engineering
Description-
The scrum master coaches and advises the teams as well as leadership on desired Scrum processes, procedures, values, and interactions as well as opportunities for continuous improvement.
• This role strives to enabling teams to become self-organizing, cross-functional, and accountable while assisting them to achieve their Sprint plan by facilitating Scrum/Kanban/SAFe events, removing impediments, and resolving issues outside of the team's control. Resource will lead the planning and execution of development and delivery of efforts for one or more products to a high standard.
• This role must execute and follow the Agile transformation strategies laid out by the Agile Transformation Coach and transformation team, work as a good team player to enable understanding, learning and behaviors in an Agile way that drives customer and business value while creating a healthy Agile team culture.
• This position will be responsible for managing and assisting with requirements gathering, design, development, and implementation of the Cúram/Java web-based software application on n-tier infrastructure, interfacing with various internal and external applications on variety of platforms.
• This position will use Agile Scrum principles to understand and execute resolution of backlog items by working closely with the Product Owner(s) and the project team(s), ensuring deliverables reflect requirements, are effective solutions and are delivered with quality.
• This role must demonstrate a high level of expertise in understanding and estimating work effort, collaborating to refine prioritized backlogs, facilitating Scrum and Program Increment planning.
• Strong experience understanding and implementing Agile values, principles, and practices based on Team's maturity.
• Experience with JIRA to create/enhance dashboards, monitor progress of sprint/work flow, and providing statuses in timely manner.
• Experience with work breakdown and estimation, sprint planning, monitoring progress and removing impediments to deliver solutions for business needs.
• Strong experience using facilitation and communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in gaining buy-in and support from stakeholders
• Certified Scrum Master or Kanban certification
• Certified SPC or SAFe agilist in SAFe transformation
• 3 – 5 years experience with DevOps and Agile practices.