Senior Scrum Master to focus, support and develop new and innovative solutions for multiple data initiatives

Senior Scrum Master to focus, support and develop new and innovative solutions for multiple data initiatives

One year contract. 100% remote. Must work EST time zone. 7.5 hour work days.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance and continuous improvement of Agile events and project/program management practices.
• Support the Product Owner to ensure teams actions are aligned with the Product goals, vision, and roadmap.
• Identify and action impediments that interfere with team progress and achievement of the team’s goals (for example, using burndown charts at stand-ups, reviewing OKRs (Objective and Key Results) on an ongoing basis, identifying risks etc.).
• Ability to implement, navigate, communicate, and decipher trends using team metrics (e.g., throughput, cycle time), DevOps/ IT metrics along with barometer scores and progress against OKRs
• Clear obstacles in the team’s path (for example, dependencies on other teams), maintain a list of risks, impediments, and improvements.
• Facilitate team events (planning sessions, retrospectives, mid-cycle reviews, and demos).
• Organize the processes of decomposition and story/task estimation. Co-ordinate cross-team technology dependencies.
• Coordinate interaction with other teams and any other relevant product level synchronizations.
• Support identification of trade-offs between short-term and long-term benefits to drive shared vision between the team and Product Owner.
• Identify ways to strengthen teams’ understanding and adoption of Agile concepts and principles.
• Foster a continuous learning environment, helping teams to inspect and adapt. Role model and coach Agile behaviors as needed.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of trust through facilitation of retrospectives and feedback exchange among team members.
• Bring transparency to Business and IT organizations about team and Product development.
• Bring an element of project management skills to the team to assist in planning larger initiatives that require an organized timeline.

Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years as a Scrum Master
• Experience working in: Technology, Data and information management, financial services; federal crown corporation.
• Strong knowledge of Data ecosystems, Ei: Knowledge of ITIL, IT Service Management and IT Operations. Knowledge of data analytics platforms such as PowerBI, SAS Viya, Informatica MDM, SQL Server, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle, Agile principles, the Scrum Framework and Kanban.

Nice to have Skills:

• Scrum Master certification (e.g., DASM, DASSM, PSM)
• Knowledge of Azure Dev Ops (ADO)
• Knowledge of Planview Portfolios AgilePlace