A-Line Staffing Solutions
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Scrum Master IV
500 Woodward Avenue Detroit, MI 48226 US
Posted: 05/18/2023
2023-05-18
2023-07-08
Category: Information Technology
Job Number: 122109
Job Description
Title: Scrum Master IV
Location: Detroit, MI (Hybrid)
Note: This position is a contract on W2, and is NOT open to C2C
Job Description
Experience & Knowledge
If you think this position is a good fit for you, please reach out to me - feel free e-mail me, or apply to this posting!
Andrew Torchine
Atorchine@alinestaffing.com
Location: Detroit, MI (Hybrid)
Note: This position is a contract on W2, and is NOT open to C2C
Job Description
- Facilitates the sizing of stories during the planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for the team.
- Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients.
- Facilitates Agile ceremonies for 1-2 teams.
- Uses historical velocity and planned velocity to assist team with commitments
- Works with the project sponsor and product owner to determine staffing requirements.
- Assist with identifying which resources need to be procured outside the organization.
- Involves team in identifying and removing impediments and known risks through analysis and prioritization
- Maintains risk register and escalates where needed
- Utilizes standardized tools and techniques for estimating costs associated with a project including physical, financial and human capital costs.
- Continuously monitors the actual cost of a project versus the budget.
- Reviews expenditures and evaluates factors that may potentially cause cost changes.
- Conducts in-depth root cause analysis of project budget discrepancies.
- Effectively utilizes progress indicators such as burn-down and burn-up charts.
- Utilizes the team to guide the team during their sprint commitments.
- Uses collaborative engagement techniques.
- Fosters self-accountability.
- Escalates where needed.
- Ensures scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues are effectively communicated to the client and project team.
- Looks for opportunities to teach and mentor the team.
- Guides the team by providing meaningful feedback.
- Participates in setting best practices.
- Effectively facilitates retrospectives to pull actionable changes for the team.
- Conducts formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.
- Tracks and measures client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendations.
- Generates appropriate communication, process and educational plans for mitigating the disruption of change while facilitating identification and removal of obstacles to change.
Experience & Knowledge
- Minimum of 3-5 years of Scrum Master experience
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM or related certification strongly preferred)
- 3+ years of information technology experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering; or equivalent work experience
- 5 or more years managing projects
- Thorough understanding of agile and waterfall methodologies, values, and procedures.
- Experience working with both agile and waterfall methodologies on large scale, technically complex projects.
- Ability to deal with multiple projects.
- Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Must be self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
- Data driven analysis skills for measuring and managing delivery.
- Experience with relevant business software (e.g. Microsoft Office applications, Team Foundation Server).
- Experience using Microsoft Team Foundation Server Agile, Jira or similar tool.
- Controls a program level view and status and uses the information in Clarity/Open Workbench to communicate on multiple projects and programs at a time.
- Able to use Clarity/Open Workbench tool to determine how the intersection of multiple projects and programs impacts the department.
- Able to use the Clarity/Open Workbench tool develop departmental budgets.
- Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
- Ability to understand and communicate technical issues.
- Highly adaptable to changing environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams.
- Situational awareness of when to listen and when to be assertive.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
- Ability to keep team engaged and on task.
If you think this position is a good fit for you, please reach out to me - feel free e-mail me, or apply to this posting!
Andrew Torchine
Atorchine@alinestaffing.com