Job Description

Position: Scrum Master

Location: Niles IL (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 Months Contract

Job Description:

• Educate team members and stakeholders on effective collaboration with scrum teams.
• Act as a change leader embodying and promoting agile values within the organization.
• Identify and remove blockers that hinder team progress.
• Facilitate discussions to resolve issues and development impediments.
• Foster an environment of teamwork and open communication.
• Conduct daily standup meetings to discuss blockers plans and progress.
• Hold sprint reviews to assess performance and capture feedback.
• Guide sprint planning sessions to elaborate on user stories acceptance criteria and effort estimation.
• Schedule and conduct retrospectives to identify opportunities for improvement and implement action items.
• Partner with the Product Owner Product Manager scrum team and stakeholders to ensure alignment.
• Promote the use of product tools including Azure DevOps ensuring consistency and transparency.
• Navigate IT processes across the organization while guiding teams.
• Maintain open communication with leadership operational teams product leaders and project stakeholders.
• Follow up on action items to ensure accountability.
• Administer the scrum board ensuring cards are updated and tools are utilized effectively.
• Create and maintain necessary artifacts for scrum agile and product models.
• Encourage the maintenance of the product backlog and protect the sprint backlog and product increment.
• Guide multiple medium to largescale projects through sprints iterations and phases.
• Manage dependencies with external partners and remote project teams.
• Initiate and facilitate project kickoff and inception activities.
• Oversee communication and dependencies between Scrum Teams and crossfunctional teams.
• Provide oversight of programs to meet business financial objectives.
• Stay current with new tools techniques and methodologies in the agile community.
• Be available during normal working hours regardless of work location.

Required Qualifications:

• 2 years as a Scrum Master with a valid Scrum Master certification (CSM).
• 2 years working with outsource partners.
• Proven experience in running projects using Scrum and Kanban methodologies managing multiple dependencies and remote team members.
• Learning mindset with a solid understanding of product models.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
• Strong problemsolving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing challenges.
• Bachelors degree with 35 years of IT Project Management experience or HS Diploma/GED with 7 years of IT Project Management experience.

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