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Please respond to jreddy@sovereigntec.com asap
Please respond to jreddy@sovereigntec.com asap
Senior Agile / Scrum Master
Location: St Louis, MO
Duration: 6 Months + DIRECT HIRE
Job Type: Contract to Hire
Location: St Louis, MO
Duration: 6 Months + DIRECT HIRE
Job Type: Contract to Hire
Job Description:-
Are you passionate about driving/coaching agile teams?
Are you interested in working with top talent, making a real difference, and significantly contributing to the business? Then come explore the role of Scrum Master with us.
In a nutshell, an agile leader helps teams grow strong in applying Agile practice to their work.
It takes time to adopt these changes so you can't do this effectively as a "seagull consultant" or trainer who swoops in to deliver words of wisdom and then makes a sharp exit.
You need to spend time with a team to help them to become more aware of their workflow and how to collaborate effectively.
Essential Duties:
o Lead/Participate in an Agile Transformation
o Ability to teach Scaled Agile Framework:SAFe
o Teach Kanban and Lean Principles
o Facilitate iteration planning, story writing lead work within individual sprints, and coordinate retrospectives and demos.
o Ability to guide Product Owners on what it means to be a Product Owner
o Present to Executive Management the reasons the organization should perform an Agile Transformation
o Ability to build relationships with other departments who interface with the Agile Transformation teams
o Act as a Scrum Master for 1-2 agile teams
o Ensure cross functional coordination (analysts, developers, and testers) is occurring early and often.
o Lead daily stand-ups, resolve conflict, and are a “un-blocker” for your team(s).
o Maintain and publish agile metrics (e.g. velocity and burn-down).
o Provides recommendations and leadership to strengthen the presence of our department as an Agile Center of Excellence which would involve making contributions to implement disciplines and practices for continuous improvement.
o Act as a traditional project manager when necessary (e.g. manage external dependencies with outside teams – may be internal or external.
Required Skills:-
o Strong professional experience and a proven understanding with iterative development, incremental software delivery and the “why” behind it.
o Demonstrated knowledge with the principles behind emergent requirements.
o Having wide-ranging experience, knowledge, and belief in agile principles alongside strong analytical and problem solving skills.
o Excellent understanding of agile metrics (e.g. how to build a burn-down, track velocity, backlog tracking, and task definition).
o Expertise in making continuous improvement changes, especially as it relates to software development.
o Demonstrated knowledge of test driven development and the virtues of unit testing.
o Proven ability as a servant leader with excellent communication (verbal and written) and social skills.
o Exceptional facilitative skills, must be able to lead and demonstrate value add principles with transparency (e.g. desire to bring disclosure and grow trust).
o Proven situational awareness with an understanding when to listen and when to be assertive.
o Must be able to resolve conflict with professionalism and a win-win attitude.
o Proven ability to lead teams to self-organization and working independently with limited supervision.
o Ideally has come from a development background with 10 plus years of experience(industry agnostic).
o Enthusiastic and fun individual with an attitude of team empowerment.
Education:-
o 4 year bachelor’s degree, ideally in a technical discipline
Are you passionate about driving/coaching agile teams?
Are you interested in working with top talent, making a real difference, and significantly contributing to the business? Then come explore the role of Scrum Master with us.
In a nutshell, an agile leader helps teams grow strong in applying Agile practice to their work.
It takes time to adopt these changes so you can't do this effectively as a "seagull consultant" or trainer who swoops in to deliver words of wisdom and then makes a sharp exit.
You need to spend time with a team to help them to become more aware of their workflow and how to collaborate effectively.
Essential Duties:
o Lead/Participate in an Agile Transformation
o Ability to teach Scaled Agile Framework:SAFe
o Teach Kanban and Lean Principles
o Facilitate iteration planning, story writing lead work within individual sprints, and coordinate retrospectives and demos.
o Ability to guide Product Owners on what it means to be a Product Owner
o Present to Executive Management the reasons the organization should perform an Agile Transformation
o Ability to build relationships with other departments who interface with the Agile Transformation teams
o Act as a Scrum Master for 1-2 agile teams
o Ensure cross functional coordination (analysts, developers, and testers) is occurring early and often.
o Lead daily stand-ups, resolve conflict, and are a “un-blocker” for your team(s).
o Maintain and publish agile metrics (e.g. velocity and burn-down).
o Provides recommendations and leadership to strengthen the presence of our department as an Agile Center of Excellence which would involve making contributions to implement disciplines and practices for continuous improvement.
o Act as a traditional project manager when necessary (e.g. manage external dependencies with outside teams – may be internal or external.
Required Skills:-
o Strong professional experience and a proven understanding with iterative development, incremental software delivery and the “why” behind it.
o Demonstrated knowledge with the principles behind emergent requirements.
o Having wide-ranging experience, knowledge, and belief in agile principles alongside strong analytical and problem solving skills.
o Excellent understanding of agile metrics (e.g. how to build a burn-down, track velocity, backlog tracking, and task definition).
o Expertise in making continuous improvement changes, especially as it relates to software development.
o Demonstrated knowledge of test driven development and the virtues of unit testing.
o Proven ability as a servant leader with excellent communication (verbal and written) and social skills.
o Exceptional facilitative skills, must be able to lead and demonstrate value add principles with transparency (e.g. desire to bring disclosure and grow trust).
o Proven situational awareness with an understanding when to listen and when to be assertive.
o Must be able to resolve conflict with professionalism and a win-win attitude.
o Proven ability to lead teams to self-organization and working independently with limited supervision.
o Ideally has come from a development background with 10 plus years of experience(industry agnostic).
o Enthusiastic and fun individual with an attitude of team empowerment.
Education:-
o 4 year bachelor’s degree, ideally in a technical discipline
Thanks and Regards,
Jaipal Reddy
Sovereign Technologies
Email: Jreddy@sovereigntec.com
Phone:425-608-0518(9-5 PST)
Fax: 312-624-7931
Http://www.sovereigntec.com
Jaipal Reddy
Sovereign Technologies
Email: Jreddy@sovereigntec.com
Phone:425-608-0518(9-5 PST)
Fax: 312-624-7931
Http://www.sovereigntec.com
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