SCRUM Master

Job Description

Scrum Master
Team: EMOST | Industry: Financial
Assignment Details

• Location: Onsite, Austin, TX — 4 days/week
• Duration: 3-month contract with possible extensions
• Pay: W2 only (C2C & sponsorship are unavailable)

Your Opportunity
The EMOST team is looking for an experienced Scrum Master who can lead multiple scrum teams at the same time. Ideal candidates must thrive in a fast-paced team environment and have a strong passion for technology and innovation. As a Scrum Master, you will work within a scrum team to enhance messaging applications and support business-critical internal integration projects. What You're Good At

• Execute on Scrum Master responsibilities: organizing and facilitating daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other meetings
• Influence team members to leverage, follow, and support agile software development practices
• Interface with the product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA, and Technology Operations to ensure high-quality delivery of software projects on time and on budget
• Track internal and external project dependencies
• Identify gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans
• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint/release progress, and maintain process documentation
• Provide accurate and succinct updates and escalations (with business impacts)
• Serve and support the team by removing impediments and partnering with Senior Managers and Project Managers
• Assist teams with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; identify and remove impediments; prevent distractions that interfere with sprint goal delivery; facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Empower teams to self-organize; improve sprint team productivity; ensure each increment of functionality is potentially releasable
• Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally
• Ensure coordination of individual team deliverables is synchronized as needed to achieve product releases

What You Have

• Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years of Scrum Master experience (required)
• Rally experience is a plus
• Experience using the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) and maintaining Scrum Boards, including feature breakdown to Epics, User Stories, Tasks, and Subtasks
• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
• Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate
• Experience working with agile methodology on large-scale, technically complex projects
• Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle
• Highly adaptable to changing environments
• Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
• Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential
• Self-motivated, creative, and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
• Collaborative in driving decisions; able to manage multiple projects and deadlines
• Ability to hold team members accountable, set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, and keep the team engaged and on task
• Experience working in the financial industry and awareness of basic financial concepts
• Experience taking business requirements and writing technical requirements using BDD
• Excellent written and verbal communication and influencing skills
• Self-starter, organized, able to work across multiple projects and handle multiple scrum teams simultaneously