Position: Scrum Master
Client: Prudential
Location: Newark, NJ(Hybrid/Onsite)
Duration: 1 Year
Rate: $50/hr on C2H
Visa: USC, GC, GC EAD and H4EAD
What You'll Do:
- Coach multiple complex teams on Agile values and principles and their application as well as backlog management to maximize business value.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospective and Backlog Refinement.
- Support the team in removing and/or escalating impediments including topics related to scope, schedule, prioritization, decision making, risk management, etc.
- Assist RTE with SAFe PI Planning meetings and manage dependencies with other teams.
- Lead team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and continuous improvement.
- Act in a capacity of Scrum Master or Service Delivery Owner.
- Facilitate Agile Retrospective using techniques like Silent Writing, Happiness histogram, Sad Mad Glad, Speed dating etc.
- Work closely with product owners managing the product backlog including understanding of MVPs and delivering clearly written stories.
- Guide decomposing of features into smaller user stories for effective utilization by identifying SMART tasks with the help of the team.
- Assist the team and product owner to prioritize using prioritization techniques like 100 Dollar test, MOSCOW, Business Value based etc.
- Guide teams in capacity planning and story sizing utilizing estimation techniques like Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing and relative mass evaluation.
- Coordinate and collaborate with other scrum teams to help identify and track user story dependencies including KANBAN to visualize workflow for Kanban teams.
- Support teams in identifying and mitigating various issues and risks.
- Remove team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver on goals.
- Track progress against goals through metrics and dashboards in Jira.
- Maintain and present Burn-down Charts, Product Burn-Down Charts, and Product Burn-up Chart to show the progress of the team during iteration.
- Assist in facilitating ART events and processes - help manage risks and drive relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops.
- Work within SAFe framework with other scrum teams, attend Scrum of Scrums to assist in coordinating dependencies across Agile Release train.
- Lead lean Agile teams in the continuous improvement process involved in PDCA cycle within the continuous delivery pipeline.
- Assist in facilitating PI planning meetings, summarize team PI objectives into program PI objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency.
- Enable improvement in team delivery commitments through facilitation of RCAs.
- Work with in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, product visioning, technical debt reduction.
What You Bring:
- Certified Scrum Master in SAFe with over 7 years of experience in lean agile software development methodology.
- Proven ability in motivating and enforcing the agile principles and removing impediments.
- Well versed in both Kanban and Scrum with experience as both a Scrum Master and Service Delivery Owner.
- Strong knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Life cycle.
- Expertise in using the Atlassian Products- Jira and Confluence, and MS Office Suite.
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university.
- Preferred Qualifications:
o Expert level experience working in Jira setting up Team Boards for both Kanban and Scrum and creating customized reports and dashboards.
o Strong experience setting up team artifacts in Confluence.
o Experience as Scrum Masters in healthcare insurance and/or Financial Services.
o SAFe Agile Coaching Experience.
o Acting in Scrum Master/SDO role during an Agile Transformation.
o Additional SAFe Certifications that complement the Scrum Master Role.
o Experience working in Jira Align.
o Working for large scale applications, databases, Managed Upgrade and migration projects.
o Knowledge of other agile concepts such as CI/CD, Test Driven development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) etc.