St. Louis, MO

Senior Scrum Master

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Scrum Master in Saint Louis, MO. Roles and Responsibilities: Plan:
  • Senior Scrum Master will facilitate and support all scrum events (Ceremonies): Team Agreements, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
  • Identify, analyze, monitor, and resolve issues and risks; Identify mitigation strategies and communicate with the product team
  • Plan and facilitate team activities for Program Increment (PI) events
  • Plan and evolve appropriate team metrics to promote continuous improvement
Strategize:
  • Think creatively to find potential solutions and examine possibilities and outcomes
  • As a Senior Scrum Master, you will follow audit and change management processes
  • Contribute to the advancement and improvement of agile practices within the organization
Collaborate:
  • Establish and maintain effective communication and relationships across areas, divisions, outside vendors, and other teams, providing timely updates
  • Work with the scrum team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams
  • Work with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role
  • Work daily with Product Owners and Product Delivery Managers
  • Lead Agile Assessments, and Product & Agile workshops, and training sessions
Lead/Mentor:
  • Facilitate and Co-facilitate Product & Agile workshops and training sessions
  • Serve as a model example for other Scrum Masters on being effective in this role
  • Exhibit Lean-Agile Leadership; Help the team embrace a lean-agile mindset and agile core values and principles
  • Elevate your teams' performance by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Bachelor's degree or relevant experience
  • Certified Scrum Master; SAFe certification preferred
  • 4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master required
  • 2+ years of experience in a SAFe release train practicing PI planning
  • Ability to act as a Scrum Master for a large (15+) full-stack application development team or two teams (10+) where needed
  • Experience with teams doing web and mobile application development (Android and iOS) highly preferred
  • Experience in the financial services industry preferred
  • Working knowledge of agile methodologies and techniques
  • Experience using Jira, Mural, Aha, and Qtest (or similar)
  • Familiarity with Clarity PPM
  • Adept at refinement, story splitting, story pointing and estimating, fostering velocity, actionable retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
  • Proven leadership and management experience
  • Excellent people and product management skills
  • Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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