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Scrum Master 2
Scrum Master 2
Job ID: mrp-884346
CHARLOTTE, ,
Information Technology
Contract,
$43.3 - $48.78
On-site
Other/Non Classified
CHARLOTTE, ,
$43.3 - $48.78
Contract,
Other/Non Classified
On-site
Information Technology
Job details
Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Scrum Master in Charlotte, NC or Irving, TX (Hybrid).
Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today’s digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers’ financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Required Skills & Experience
- 2+ years of Scrum or Agile experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
What You Will Be Doing
- Participate in low to moderately complex initiatives and identify opportunity for process improvements within Scrum or Agile.
- Review and analyze basic or tactical Scrum Master assignments or challenges that require research, evaluation, and selection of alternatives, related to low-to-medium risk deliverables.
- Present recommendations for resolving low to moderately complex situations and exercise some independent judgment while developing understanding of function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
- Provide information to client personnel.
- Scrum Facilitation
- Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies:
- Daily Standups
- Sprint Planning
- Sprint Reviews/Demos
- Sprint Retrospectives
- Backlog Refinement sessions
- Ensure meetings are productive, time-boxed, and action-oriented.
- Team Coaching
- Coach team members on Scrum and Agile principles.
- Promote Agile best practices and continuous improvement.
- Help new team members understand team processes and ways of working.
- Impediment Management
- Identify, track, and help remove blockers impacting delivery.
- Escalate issues to leadership when team-level resolution is insufficient.
- Coordinate with dependent teams to resolve delivery constraints.
- Sprint Execution & Tracking
- Monitor Sprint progress against commitments.
- Track velocity, burndown, capacity, and sprint health metrics.
- Highlight risks, delays, and potential scope impacts early.
- Backlog & Planning Support
- Work with Product Owner to maintain a healthy backlog.
- Ensure stories meet Definition of Ready (DoR).
- Verify completion against Definition of Done (DoD).
- Support prioritization discussions and sprint planning activities.
- Stakeholder Communication
- Provide regular status updates to stakeholders.
- Communicate sprint outcomes, risks, dependencies, and escalations.
- Facilitate coordination across teams when dependencies exist.
- Agile Metrics & Reporting
- Maintain Agile dashboards and reports.
- Track:
- Velocity
- Burndown/Burnup
- Sprint Predictability
- Defects
- Team Capacity
- Present delivery status to management and governance forums.
- Risk & Dependency Management
- Track cross-team dependencies.
- Identify delivery risks early.
- Drive mitigation and follow-up actions.
- Continuous Improvement
- Capture retrospective action items.
- Ensure improvement actions are implemented.
- Measure effectiveness of process improvements.
- Tools & Process Administration
- Maintain Jira/Azure DevOps boards.
- Ensure stories, tasks, defects, and statuses are updated accurately.
- Generate sprint and release reports.
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