Scrum Master II

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Job Title: Scrum Master II

Location: Buffalo, NY

Hire Type: Contingent

Hourly: $40.92 - $68.19

Work Model: Hybrid

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No C2C, C2H, 1099 or Visa Sponsorship/Transfers Available

Nature & Scope:

Positional Overview

Role & Responsibility:

Tasks That Will Lead To Your Success

Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices including user stories,

retrospectives, story mapping,

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, information radiators, etc., to help create high performing teams.

Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the team, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration and retrospectives.

Facilitate meetings with the team for idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving and alignment.

Help the team gain transparency into their workflow through appropriate use of information radiators.

Address blocking issues that are beyond the teams authority, or require support from other teams, so the team remains focused on achieving their goals.

Work with other Agile leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization.

of practice, conferences, meetups, reading and classroom training.

Design, implement, maintain and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis.

Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.

Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.

Skills & Experience:

Qualifications That Will Help You Thrive

Bachelors degree and a minimum of 5 years experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 8 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 5 years experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience.

Excellent JIRA/Confluence knowledge and skills

Experience working with SAFe teams

Prior experience fostering team self-organization and continuous improvement.

Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices.

Experience developing/managing digital capabilities.

Understanding of Design Thinking principles.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Prior experience leading through influence

Full-time