Scrum Master

Company: Randstad Corporate Services
Location: Montvale
Posted on: February 23, 2021

Job Description:

job summary:Scrum Master This is an amazing opportunity where you will be joining an organization that his going through a large digital transformation and that is chartering a new Digital PMO. You will be able to adance your career within the next year, and you grow with the company! In this role as a Scrum Master you will be a member of the Digital Program Management Office (DPMO) and will report to the Digital Program Manager and DPMO Lead. TheScrum Masteris a leader, a mentor and coach. The Scrum Master is responsible for taking an active servant-leadership role, ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices. The key is to proactively remove impediments and act as a buffer between the team and process overhead, effectively enabling each team member to focus on agile product development execution and delivery. This role is pivotal to facilitate speed-to-market for high quality products and/or services by shielding the team from interruptions and removing obstacles. Responsibilities

• Utilizes a servant leadership style to support the product owner and delivery team wherever and whenever possible (e.g. grooming and backlog mgt.)
• Effectively facilitate all scrum ceremonies across one or more scrum teams
• Provide coaching and mentoring of agile values, principles and best practices
• Collaborate closely with the Product Management team to understand strategic alignment
• Collaborate with the Product Management team to ensure the product backlog is continuously prioritized and maintained
• Collaborate with other agile team-of-teams Scrum Masters to ensure cross-functional iteration dependencies are satisfied and best practices are being encouraged across the program
• Facilitates internal and external communications (e.g. task coordination, progress tracking/reporting, dependency management)
• Tracks and resolves impediments for the team
• Generates Team level Reports to promote ever-improving team dynamics and performance
• Participate in DPMO operations objectives including process improvements, release preparation and periodic program reporting Education
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
  • Certified SAFe Practitioner (SP) (Preferred)
  • Certified SAFe Agilist (SA), Certified SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Knowledge, Skills and Experience
    • Skilled in servant leadership, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, enabling team-level empowerment and increasing transparency across the program
    • 3 - 5 years professional experience as a Scrum Master or Senior Project Manager
    • 3 - 5 years of experience with Agile tools and technologies (e.g., JIRA, Confluence)
    • Knowledge of applying design thinking concepts in an agile product delivery environment
    • Project Management Office (PMO) experience
    • Digital agency or Big Four consultancy preferred
    • Knowledge of numerous well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (for example: Kanban, Burndown/Burnup techniques, Retrospective formats)
    • Experience with geographically distributed teams
    • Collaborative style of working with the ability to be firm yet flexible
    • Ability to work independently
    • Empathic listening
    • Change Agent
      
      location: MONTVALE, New Jerseyjob type: Permanentsalary: $80,000 - 90,000 per yearwork hours: 8am to 4pmeducation: Bachelors
      
      responsibilities:
      • Utilizes a servant leadership style to support the product owner and delivery team wherever and whenever possible (e.g. grooming and backlog mgt.)
      • Effectively facilitate all scrum ceremonies across one or more scrum teams
      • Provide coaching and mentoring of agile values, principles and best practices
      • Collaborate closely with the Product Management team to understand strategic alignment
      • Collaborate with the Product Management team to ensure the product backlog is continuously prioritized and maintained
      • Collaborate with other agile team-of-teams Scrum Masters to ensure cross-functional iteration dependencies are satisfied and best practices are being encouraged across the program
      • Facilitates internal and external communications (e.g. task coordination, progress tracking/reporting, dependency management)
      • Tracks and resolves impediments for the team
      • Generates Team level Reports to promote ever-improving team dynamics and performance
      • Participate in DPMO operations objectives including process improvements, release preparation and periodic program reporting
        
        qualifications:
        • Experience level: Experienced
        • Minimum 7 years of experience
        • Education: Bachelors (required) skills:
          • Scrum Master (4 years of experience is required)
            
            Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status. - provided by Dice

Keywords: Randstad Corporate Services, Tenafly , Scrum Master, IT / Software / Systems , Montvale, New Jersey