Job Description

Role: Scrum Master (SM- Agile Practitioner)

Location: Washington DC/Remote

Job Type: Full Time

Must have: Scrum + Data Projects experience + Client Facing

Position Summary:

• You will be leading 2-3 scrum teams across a program/project and helping them adopt the agile mindset and practices.
• The ideal candidate should be highly proficient in Lean and Agile - values & principles.
• Experienced in agile frameworks and related tools. Train, coach, mentor across project, program, verticals.
• Looking for self-motivated leader with expertise in shaping the teams to self-managed and cross-functional.
• The ideal candidate should have exposure to Agile Software development, Agile Project/Program Mgmt./Delivery.
• Can track the work, give transparency and visibility to internal-external stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Can lead 2-3 scrum/Kanban/XP teams and inculcate the awareness of agility within the team.
• Drive all the ceremonies for the scrum teams and track the backlog conversion work.
• Helping team and PO/Team in story writing and organizing the requirement components
• Coach teams through the journey of agile adoption with appropriate frameworks
• Evaluate and advise Agile Frameworks, tools, and techniques to team, as applicable.
• Organizing Metrics for team and stakeholders to have transparency and visibility in release work.
• Helping verticals and organizations in doing the agile maturity assessment periodically
• Helping team in removing the impediments for smoother scrum/iteration cycles
• Collaborating closely with client and stakeholders on a day-to-day basis doing agile solutioning for deliveries

Qualifications:

• 11 to 14 - years of overall experience in the IT Industry(preferably, prior experience in Agile project management)
• 4 - 5 years of experience as scrum master (SM) influencing agile project management deliveries
• Candidate should have end to end proficiency in creating stories across Analytics/Data engineering/BI/UX/UI domains.
• Should have experience in estimating/orchestrating cloud projects
• Good to have Atlassian JIRA, MS ADO, Atlassian Confluence, MS SharePoint, Rally, MS Excel skills.
• Mandatory: CSM, PSM-I/II/III/SAFe, LeSS, RTE/PMI-ACP etc. Active certification is a must.
• Good to have: Relevant Agile advanced certifications (Lean/Kanban/Scrum Alliance/ Scrum.org/Disciplined Agile etc.)
• Experience working with multiple delivery and business partners teams agile project management best practices.
• Some understanding of design thinking and systems thinking preferable.
• Working Knowledge of tools like MS Office, Power BI reports.
• Outstanding Communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience in Client Facing roles - mandatory.

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