Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Scrum Master

Location: Warren, New Jersey (Remote)

Job Description:

• Scrum/Agile
• Lead and coach teams using Agile scrum methodology and practices
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies -- sprint planning, daily scrums, demos, and retrospectives and help teams adhere to defined goals of each event.
• Lead team and collaborate with the product owner on backlog grooming, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives. Provide detailed status and deliverables to senior leadership on kickoff presentations, project plans, budget reports, burndown/up reports, capacity plans, deployment plans, and other required deliverables per project requirements.
• Guide the product owner and development team on Agile best practices to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Lead the scrum and development teams in self-organization.
• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team.
• Provide project and/or product deliverables including
• Work with stakeholders to remove impediments for the agile team.
• Project Management
• Report status and progress metrics to internal and client stakeholders while clearly articulating project risks.
• Changes that affect the scope, schedule, and resources are identified, managed, and controlled with an integrated and cohesive plan.
• Manages critical projects, customer engagements or business processes.
• Collaborate with testing team to ensure full testing is successfully performed -- including unit, functional, integration, regression, performance, and user acceptance -- to project standards.
• Provides thought leadership, guidance, and advice in own field.
• Adapts communication techniques for audiences at multiple internal and external levels.
• Pro-active in managing all the details throughout the project, to ensure that all action items are accomplished on a timely and accurate basis
• Prioritizes work so not only the most urgent work is completed, but also the most important
• Articulate and active participant in client and internal meetings; can deliver instructions in a clear and concise manner, providing proper materials and documentation when necessary
• Maintains a clear and reasonable vision of "next steps" and the "big picture" during meetings, conversations or whenever the parameters of a project change
• Adapting to scope creep and change requests.
• Supports team on scope and schedule issues
• Conduct Weekly project meetings and produce daily/ weekly status reports
• Work with technical teams to resolve blocking issues to deliver on client requirements
• Cultivates develops and manages strong, lasting customer relationships at the senior leadership level.
• Manages multiple medium to large projects or at least one complex project or program that require high levels of functional integration and some organizational change management

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and technical skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Previous experience/ technical knowledge managing Data Pods.
• Hands on experience of scope & change management related issues
• Bachelors or Master's
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is required
• 5+ years project management experience
• Strong leadership and motivation skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Desirable
• Advanced CSM and PMP certifications
  

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