Scrum Master

At?Strong-Bridge Envision Consulting (an HCL technologies company), we work as true partners both with our employees and our clients, embodying our number one value:?People First. Our team is driven by a desire to always learn, improve, and innovate. We take an open-minded approach to opportunities and challenges and are focused on solving business challenges.?

Strong-Bridge Envision Consulting (an HCL technologies company) is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to join our firm as a dedicated full-time employee. This is a remote opportunity working with our clients!

The candidate manages the day to day responsibilities of the scrum and helps facilitate the goals that are trying to be achieved by the team within the framework of the Agile methodology.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum events such as daily standups, planning and prioritization meetings

• Work closely with Product Management to understand milestones, share estimates and check that expectations can be met
• Ensure that the scrum board is up-to-date and prioritized, and ensure improvements are implemented
• Facilitate meetings and communication between product owner stakeholders and development team members to ensure the highest value work is top priority in the backlog
• Understand goals of project, create Agile development strategy, assist in developing project planning and strategy
• Participate in larger Scrum Master team objectives, including process improvement, release preparation, and project management tasks

• Facilitate collaboration daily to remove impediments and reduce risk
• Provide servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency to the team

Qualifications and Experience:

• 3-5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, preferably within a Fortune 500 corporation
• Bachelor of Arts or Science required, degree in Information Systems preferred
• Certified Scrum Master certification from Scrum Alliance or Professional Scrum Master certification from Scrum Org required
• 3+ years of experience in scaled Agile approaches
• 3+ years of experience with creating effective communication channels (team, Product Owner, stakeholder)
• Experience in removing impediments that would prevent the team from achieving its sprint and release goals (internal and external to the team)
• 2+ years of experience with successful Agile techniques such as User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing
• 4+ years of experience and knowledge of Kanban framework
• Experience and knowledge of backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Deep understanding of Agile values, principles, as well as Scrum framework
• Possess curiosity with an appetite for learning and supporting teams spanning a wide array of technologies and practices.
• Passion for constantly driving your teams and the organization to continuous improvement
• Minimum of 3 years of consulting experience with either a Big 4 Consulting firm or a more specialized boutique consulting firms specializing in technology delivery
• Ability to work permanently in the U.S. on a full-time basis
• Must be in the Seattle area; with ability to work on the client site 100% of the time

Desired Skills:

• A talent for multi-tasking, meeting deadlines, learning new skills and methodologies, and working under pressure in fast paced environment
• Ability to work independently
• Flexible working style, ability to work in various types of client environments
• Excellent communication skills, and proven ability to communicate effectively across the organization
• Ability to lead decision making through influence, with the ability to make sound decisions in the best interest of the client as needed throughout the project lifecycle
• Collaborative working style with the ability to flex with many different types of working styles on client site