Facilitate Scrum events, remove impediments, coordinate cross-team work, maintain metrics, communicate status to stakeholders, and drive process improvements to increase team productivity and delivery.
Company Description
SRI Tech is an IT staffing and solutions firm that serves clients with a full range of IT services that we deliver effectively and efficiently. Ranked in the top 20% of the fastest growing companies in the US by Inc. 5000 - SRI Tech is fast growing & dynamic firm maintaining its speed to be one of the leaders in serving IT.
Position:
Scrum Master
Location: Bellevue, WA/ Seattle
Duration: 6 Months + Extendable
Responsibilities
- Drive change management experience across multiple organizations, teams, products, environments and technologies
- Ability to facilitate discussion at all levels of the organization to resolve conflicts
- Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint
- Communicating status to internal and external stakeholders
- Facilitating Scrum events (i.e., grooming, stand-ups, retrospective, etc.) * Acting as Scrum Master for 1 or more scrum teams with focus on guiding teams toward improving the way they work, facilitating sprint planning, retrospective and demos
- Removing obstacles to enhance project team efficiency and effectiveness, including reaching out to larger organizational network for impediment removal; ensuring cross-team coordination
- Maintaining relevant metrics that help the team assess progress and velocity
- Developer and stakeholder liaison; foster communication across engineering disciplines
- Ensuring appropriate staffing is assigned to scrum initiatives
- Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance.
- Developing new and refining existing process to enhance quality and productivity.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in business, computer science or engineering 2+ years of experience;
- Previous experience leading an Agile Scrum team at a fast-paced environment
- Minimum of two (2) years of real-world as practicing scrum master, guiding at least two (2) organizations through varied challenges of Scrum (Or other agile development methodologies adoption).
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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