Scrum Master
Location: Remote
Contract: 6+ Month
Identify project stakeholders and facilitate selection and formation of the scrum team
Conduct daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings
Work with development team in story grooming, story estimating, and creation of epics and personas
Facilitate the acceptance of stories into a sprint, working with development team and product owner
Facilitate team standups to understand what has been completed, what will be worked on, and what impediments exist
Work with product owner and others to remove impediments to ensure that the development team can stay focused and productive
Communicate and coordinate with other teams including participation in scrum of scrums
Work to identify improvements by facilitating retrospectives
Support product owner with backlog management
Skills:
Minimum 6 years of IT and 5 years of previous Scrum Master experience with agile development/DevOps teams.
Proficiency in analytical, organizational, project management, interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral)
Knowledge of industry standard Agile methodologies and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP
Proficiency in using Agile tools (e.g., Rally or Jira) to manage backlog
Proficiency in Agile Story Estimation
Ability to perform detail-oriented business and technical analysis to Client, refine, and document the requirements for technically-oriented projects into Epics, Features, and/or Stories
Customer- and relationship-focused, process-driven, metric-focused, results-oriented, organized, self-directed
Ability to multi-task and solve problems innovatively