Scrum Master

Position: Scrum Master & Agile Coach

Location: Atlanta, GA - Hybrid

Duration: 6 months+

Local Candidates only

Only visa independent consultants are accepted for this position

Responsibilities:

Train and support IT Team Leads in leading Scrum events such as daily stand-ups, planning, sprint planning reviews, ticket tracking board clean-up activities, and retrospectives with the intention of IT Team Leads becoming proficient.

The Scrum Master/Coach will assist with ceremony refinement to promote best practices for items such as story writing and task prioritization and participation.

The collaboration with the IT Team Lead will also ensure that they become organized, informed, project tool proficient, and assess meetings to ensure relevant team members are present and informed of prioritization of their items ensure buy-in, alignment, and project success.

The Scrum Master Coach uses their daily observations to facilitate trainings, education, and documentation to reinforce all incorporated best practices to ensure team accountability, tracking of project/ticket progress, the awareness, acumen, and participation of IT Team Leads.

Coach alongside IT Team Leads, with the intent of demonstration and training, to ensure that team members are well versed on both Scrum and Kanban principles and practices to foster self-organization and continuous improvement.

Hold team leads accountable for working on items that align with IT leadership priority, which includes operational team supporting developer scrum team success.

Train teams to be empowered to address issue, make recommendations, and manage incidents as a team working toward the same goal of success and remediation.

Requirements:

Strong knowledge of both Scrum and Kanban methodologies and their underlying principles.

• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills. This includes documentation of items taught to ensure a working agreement is tracked and updated with expectations and a commitment to best practices for those being trained.

• Ability to analyze, identify, and resolve team impediments and conflicts.

• Experience in managing and prioritizing backlogs that align with IT Leadership priority.

• Strong communication skills to facilitate collaboration among team members, technical leads, architects, project managers, security team, and stakeholders.

• Understanding of how to apply Kanban's core principles, such as explicit workflow, visualizing work, and limiting work in progress.

• Understanding of how to apply Scrum Team best practices to ensure successful daily scrums, collaboration, alignment, risk analysis, and participation for ongoing team dynamics that facilitate successful iterative deployments.

• Servant leadership mindset, focusing on team needs and enabling them to be self-organizing.

• Proficient in Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), ServiceNow (ITSM and Agile Modules), MS Teams, and Office365.

• Agile Certifications Required (Scrum Master certified at minimum)