Lead Scrum Master
Posted 1 week ago by 1756005097
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
USA
Summary: This contractor role as a Lead Scrum Master involves guiding teams in Agile/Scrum practices to enhance business value delivery. The position requires leading discussions, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and supporting the Product Owner in applying the SAFe/Agile framework. The contractor will also be responsible for driving team accountability and performance while collaborating with other Scrum Masters. This role presents an opportunity for long-term engagement in a front-end enhancement project.
Key Responsibilities:
- Guide the teams and organization on how to leverage Agile/Scrum practices and values to maximize the delivery of business value
- Lead collaborative discussion, decision making, and problem solving
- Program Increment (PI) Planning Prep
- Coordinate and encourage participation from all team members in Agile ceremonies (PI Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) and longer-term planning exercises (Road Mapping, Release Planning)
- Support and educate the Product Owner in applying SAFe/Agile framework and agile principles
- Lead Agile team in developing, capturing and driving review of Agile metrics to facilitate team improvements
- Will be working with other scrum masters and HM on recurring basis
- Performance expectations: contractor will need to hold the team accountable, remove roadblocks for the team, good meeting discipline, and keeping the team to their commitments
- Opportunity to play a Lead hands on role in the FAP front end enhancement project. Opportunity to turn into long term gig
Key Skills:
- Required: Bachelors Degree & SAFe SM Certification Preferred
- Years of experience required: minimum 5 years experience with certification, Experience taking teams through PI Planning Prep, ability to lead multiple teams
- Disqualifiers: Not looking for job hoppy resumes
- Additional qualities to look for: Healthcare experience is preferred, ability to ask the right questions
- 1 Great communication skills
- 2 Meeting discipline & holding people accountable
- 3 Assertiveness & initiative
Salary (Rate): £83 per hour
City: Saint Louis
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
job summary:
This contractor will be responsible for:
- Guide the teams and organization on how to leverage Agile/Scrum practices and values to maximize the delivery of business value
- Lead collaborative discussion, decision making, and problem solving
- Program Increment (PI) Planning Prep
location: Saint Louis, Missouri
job type: Contract
salary: $73 - 83 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
- Coordinate and encourage participation from all team members in Agile ceremonies (PI Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) and longer-term planning exercises (Road Mapping, Release Planning)
- Support and educate the Product Owner in applying SAFe/Agile framework and agile principles
- Lead Agile team in developing, capturing and driving review of Agile metrics to facilitate team improvements
- Will be working with other scrum masters and HM on recurring basis.
- Performance expectations: contractor will need to hold the team accountable, remove roadblocks for the team, good meeting discipline, and keeping the team to their commitments
- Opportunity to play a Lead hands on role in the FAP front end enhancement project. Opportunity to turn into long term gig.
qualifications:
Candidate Requirements
- Required: Bachelors Degree & SAFe SM Certification Preferred:
- Years of experience required: minimum 5 years experience with certification, Experience taking teams through PI Planning Prep, ability to lead multiple teams
- Disqualifiers: Not looking for job hoppy resumes
- Additional qualities to look for: Healthcare experience is preferred, ability to ask the right questions
skills: Top 3 must-have hard skills stack-ranked by importance
- 1 Great communication skills
- 2 Meeting discipline & holding people accountable
- 3 Assertiveness & initiative
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