Scrum Master/Project Manager
Posted Today by 1762660468
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Scrum Master/Project Manager role involves leading a vendor-hosted procurement solution project, ensuring effective scrum processes throughout the project lifecycle. The position requires collaboration with stakeholders, coaching team members in agile methodologies, and facilitating scrum events to enhance team efficiency. This is a fully remote position with a focus on delivering project goals within budget and timeline constraints. The role demands strong communication skills and experience in agile project management practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support cross-functional Scrum teams to add value efficiently through the practice of scrum events and agile principles.
- Provide and communicate backlog tracking, monitor burndown charts and product metrics, forecast velocity, and oversee the flow of work related to tasks associated with each requirement (user story).
- Coordinate and facilitate all agile events making sure the team is working smoothly and every team member has tools to get their work done efficiently.
- Forecast the numbers of scrum deliverables possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source.
- Remove product impediments while continuously negotiating with the product owner throughout the product development life cycle.
- Improve the efficiency of the development team.
- Provides continuous education to the Scrum team on agile methodology.
- Manage Scrum team conflicts while keeping the product on track within the agreed upon budget.
- Ensures the scrum team completes the work they commit to.
- Influences upstream, that is to upper management and leadership across the business to ensure the progress of agile transformation/journey is not interrupted.
- Coach scrum team members on agile principles.
- Coordinating and facilitating all scrum events throughout the life-cycle.
- Facilitating and participating in the daily scrum.
- Helping the team maintain their burndown chart.
- Shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint.
- Removing obstacles that affect the team.
- Walking the product owner through more technical user stories.
- Encouraging collaboration between the scrum team and Product Owner.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years as a Scrum Master for a vendor hosted/vendor supported procurement solution.
- Experience facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint backlog refinement.
- Experience using Azure DevOps for sprint planning and backlog tracking.
- Experience using ServiceNow for resource plans, demand management, and project status updates.
- Experience collaborating with product owners and technical teams to drive project initiatives, ensuring timely feature delivery.
- Experience leading weekly status meetings with stakeholders, ensuring alignment on project goals and timelines.
- Experience leading teams, improving processes, and accomplishing complex product deliveries by implementing Agile environment.
- Experience leading Agile best practices (velocity tracking, burndown charts, backlog refinement).
- Experience coaching scrum teams members on Agile principles.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Certified as a CSM - Certified Scrum Master.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
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** We will NOT accept 3rd Party (C2C) Contractors **
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JOB DETAILS:
Position:SCRUM MASTER/PROJECT MANAGER
JOB REF#:
Duration:12 Months (Contract)
Location:REMOTE - Denver, CO 80206
Pay Rate:$65.00 (W2) / $73.00 (INC)
This role is 100% REMOTE / HOURS: MON-FRI 8am - 5pm (CST)
Scrum Master will lead the body of work that will be performed in collaboration with an external vendor. This is a vendor hosted/vendor supported procurement solution that requires a Scrum Master resource assignment throughout the project lifecycle and possibly into operational ongoing support. They will implement and provide oversight of scrum processes applied to operations throughout the organization and/or in specific work units. This includes coaching team members in scrum methodology, leading scrum events, and eliminating barriers to assure successful sprints. They will proactively collaborates with all stakeholders to support release planning and foster team decision-making, while facilitating collaboration between the scrum team and Product Owner.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
- Support cross-functional Scrum teams to add value efficiently through the practice of scrum events and agile principles.
- Provide and communicate backlog tracking, monitor burndown charts and product metrics, forecast velocity, and oversee the flow of work related to tasks associated with each requirement (user story).
- Coordinate and facilitate all agile events making sure the team is working smoothly and every team member has tools to get their work done efficiently.
- Forecast the numbers of scrum deliverables possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source.
- Remove product impediments while continuously negotiating with the product owner throughout the product development life cycle.
- Improve the efficiency of the development team.
- Provides continuous education to the Scrum team on agile methodology.
- Manage Scrum team conflicts while keeping the product on track within the agreed upon budget.
- Ensures the scrum team completes the work they commit to.
- Influences upstream, that is to upper management and leadership across the business to ensure the progress of agile transformation/journey is not interrupted.
- Coach scrum team members on agile principles.
DAILY TASKS:
- Coordinating and facilitating all scrum events throughout the life-cycle
- Facilitating and participating in the daily scrum
- Helping the team maintain their burndown chart
- Shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint
- Removing obstacles that affect the team
- Walking the product owner through more technical user stories
- Encouraging collaboration between the scrum team and Product Owner
REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
- 5+ years as a Scrum Master for a a vendor hosted/vendor supported procurement solution.
- Experience facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint backlog refinement
- Experience using Azure DevOps for sprint planning and backlog tracking
- Experience using ServiceNow for resource plans, demand management, and project status updates
- Experience collaborating with product owners and technical teams to drive project initiatives, ensuring timely feature delivery
- Experience leading weekly status meetings with stakeholders, ensuring alignment on project goals and timelines
- Experience leading teams, improving processes, and accomplishing complex product deliveries by implementing Agile environment
- Experience leading Agile best practices (velocity tracking, burndown charts, backlog refinement)
- Experience coaching scrum teams members on Agile principles
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Certified as a CSM - Certified Scrum Master
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Calance Consultant Benefits Offerings:
- EPO/PPO Medical Plans
- HMO/PPO Dental programs
- Vision - VSP (Vision Plan Summary)
- 401K Retirement vesting program (VOYA)
- Paid Bi-Weekly/Direct Deposit
- Flex Spending Plan
- Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD or LTD plans