SCRUM MASTER

Description

Title:Scrum Master

Location: Charlotte, NC

Duration: 104 W, 2 D

Work Engagement: W2

Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult on or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within Scrum or Agile and contribute to large-scale planning related to Scrum Master deliverables. Review and analyze moderately complex Scrum Master challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Contribute to the resolution of moderately complex issues and consult with others to meet Scrum Master deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements. Collaborate with client personnel. Required Qualifications: Scrum or Agile experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Key Requirements:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Lead and facilitate Agile ceremonies to achieve clear outcomes and delivery commitments
• Coach teams, Product Owners, and Engineering partners on Agile practices and behaviors
• Maintain strong understanding of team backlog, priorities, and value delivered
• Protect team focus by managing scope, dependencies, and unplanned work
• Drive continuous improvement using metrics, retrospectives, and coaching plans
• Meets with Product and Engineering partners at the appropriate frequency (at a minimum monthly) to review team maturity, metrics, and operational improvement opportunities.
• Resolves team conflict within one sprint by using facilitation techniques and ensuring updated agreements are followed.
• Demonstrates leadership presence and professionalism by responding to feedback no more than 48 hours post feedback, requesting clarification when needed, and role modeling calm fact based communication during escalations.
• Assesses team maturity monthly using a monthly coaching plan with measurable progress indicators.
• Guides teams toward effective work break-down by ensuring every user story meets DoR and DoD, proactively reduces scope creep by driving alignment on sprint goals, validating acceptance criteria prior to commitment, and addressing unplanned work during Reviews and Refinements.
• Provides real-time targeted coaching to strengthen team agile practices, working habits, flow, quality, predictability, and alignment, resulting in improvements of key agile metrics and software delivery practices.
• Effectively identifies, tracks and manages cross team dependencies ensuring risks are surfaced early and resolved through proactive coordination with stakeholders and delivery partners
• Identifies and surfaces impediments within 24 hours, maintains an impediment backlog(in JIRA), and drives resolution with appropriate owners within the sprint as to prevent unnecessary delays .
• Maintains expert proficiency in JIRA by creating dashboards and automation that visualize team performance trends (cycle time, throughput, WIP, rollover).