Scrum Master (Remote)
- Job Title
- Scrum Master (Remote)
- Job ID
- 27696304
- Work From Home
- Yes
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA 19192
- Other Location
- Description
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Our History:
From our start in 2009, Conexess has established itself in 3 markets, employing nearly 200+ individuals nation-wide. Operating in over 15 states, our client base ranges from Fortune 500/1000 companies to mid-small range companies. For the majority of the mid-small range companies, we are exclusively used due to our outstanding staffing track record.
Who We Are:
Conexess is a full-service staffing firm offering contract, contract-to hire, and direct placements. We have a wide range of recruiting capabilities extending from help desk technicians to CIOs. We are also capable of offering project-based work.
Conexess Group is aiding a large healthcare client in their search a Scrum Master in a remote capacity. This is a long-term opportunity with a competitive compensation package.
******We are unable to work C2C on this role******
Responsibilities:- Act as a Scrum Master for one or more distributed agile teams
- Establish, support and facilitate team level cadence and ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand up, retrospectives, backlog refinement, etc.
- Support the team in establishing realistic and achievable delivery commitments while operating at a sustainable pace
- Facilitate / support management of dependencies to ensure alignment of delivery
- Remove impediments and escalate in a timely manner as necessary
- Remove barriers between stakeholders and scrum teams
- Provide coaching and guidance to the team to support adoption of agile values, principles and practices
- Support Product Owner with maintaining and refining product backlog
- Support Product Owner with prioritization and forecasting of roadmap based on team velocity and stakeholder requests
- Support Product Owner and stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed
- Protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work
- Co-ordinate scrum team’s releases to Production and support communication to Stakeholders
- Maintain metrics and data necessary to provide visibility on progress, quality and value to stakeholders
- Participate in and contribute to internal agile communities of practices and/or Scrum Master Forums
- 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master on a Scrum team.
- 5-7 years of experience in IT.
- Technically savvy and able to get to detail levels and drive the project(s)
- Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization, converting complex challenges into simplified options and recommendations.
- Ability to navigate a fast paced, highly matrixed organization effectively in order to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives
- Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Experience with Jira
- Healthcare experience
- Experience promoting agile engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous delivery, TDD, etc.
- Experience acting as a Scrum Master for multiple distributed teams.
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