SCRUM MASTER (contract)

Description

Summary: In this contingent resource assignment, you may:

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Scrum or Agile.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale, or longer-term Scrum Master challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.

Required Qualifications

• Scrum or Agile experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Key Requirements

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Lead All Scrum Ceremonies

• Sprint Planning
• Quarterly planning
• Daily Stand ups (Daily Scrum)
• Sprint Review (Demo)
• Sprint Retrospective

Resource Capacity Tracking and Forecast

• Ensure adherence to Scrum framework and Agile principles
• Facilitate backlog refinement (grooming) with Product Owners
• Support empirical process control (inspect and adapt)
• Manage sprint execution and track progress against goals
• Monitor delivery using Agile metrics: Velocity, Sprint burndown/burnup, Cycle time / throughput
• Identify and remove team impediments and blockers
• Cookordinate cross-team dependencies and risks

Technical Enablement

• Understand system architecture, APIs, integrations, and dependencies
• Help teams assess technical feasibility and complexity during planning
• Support technical discussions
• Aid in identifying and managing: Technical debt, Environment and infrastructure issues, Release and deployment risks, Software/Hardware End of Life management, Vulnerability Management effort tracking and prioritization
• Partner with Product Owners on backlog prioritization
• Engage engineering leads and architects on delivery risks
• Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes to leadership
• Shield the team from distractions and unplanned work
• Coach teams on Agile and Scrum practices
• Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives
• Promote self-organization and accountability within teams

Agile Scrum Frameworks

• Scrum (primary)
• Kanban (flow-based work management)
• Scrum of Scrums

Agile Delivery Tools

• Jira (boards, backlog, sprint tracking, reporting)
• Confluence (documentation, retrospectives, knowledge base)
• SharePoint
• MS Office and Teams

Skills

• Knowledge of Sprint-based delivery (time-boxed iterations)
• Experience with Backlog management and refinement
• Definition of Ready (DoR) / Definition of Done (DoD) story sizing (Planning Poker, Fibonacci estimation)
• Incremental and iterative delivery
• Agile SDLC workflow

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Life insurance
• 401K
• Voluntary Benefits

Pay

N/A

Schedule

N/A