Scrum Master (On-Site

Job Description

Title
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Scrum Master

Location
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Onsite in Baton Rouge, LA

Type
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Long-term Contract (2+ years)

Our client, a State Agency, has established a special technology division as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of this "Office" has consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom applications. The "Office" leads the State's technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the Office's suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies.

• Guide and Mentor multiple teams and organization using Agile/Scrum best practices, methodologies and values.
• Assess the Scrum maturity of the teams and organization and coaching the teams to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the teams and organization.
• Remove impediments or guide a team to remove impediments.
• Facilitate completion of work assignments, assigning, or dictating work assignments.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, team building and conflict resolution.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information; supporting product owners and project leadership to maximize return on investment (ROI) and meet the organization's objectives.
• Support and educating the Product Owner and teams, to include, but not limited to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Engage in agile delivery utilizing best agile methodology (i.e. Scrum, Kanban, etc).
• Provide support to teams using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.
• Facilitate all necessary team meetings in accordance with Scrum ceremonies.
• Participates in all design sessions.
• Performs or directs the performance of special tasks as assigned.

• Five (5) years experience in the Scrum Master role
• Scrum Master certification (must be able to produce copy of certificate)

• Identifying and building Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure program performance
• Experience with JIRA and/or Azure Dev Ops
• Creating and maintaining product timelines, status reports, communication plans, and other product management related documentation