Our client in the professional services industry is looking for a contract Scrum Master with experience in leading Agile teams for a custom development projects with their insurance client following Scrum methodology.
Duration: 6 months to start
Location: Remote
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate team organization and ceremonies (sprint planning, daily scrums / stand ups , sprint / iteration reviews / demos and retrospectives)
- Act and model the desired Agile mindset and behaviours to ensure successful Agile practices and principles are implemented within Agile pods.
- Lead effective and efficient team meetings including ability to drive wide variety of efforts toward resolution/closure and identifying and resolving conflicts within the feature team(s)
- Facilitating medium-to-high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight
- Facilitate the creation and adoption of working agreements, definition of ready, done including the use of appropriate tools, standards and best practices
- Ensure proper tracking of tasks and epics, and transparency of the KPI’s associated with sprint delivery
- Work with the product management team to ensure there is a proper roadmap, appropriate risk management principles are applied to mitigate risks and manage dependencies
Requirements
- 7+ years experience as a Scrum Master delivering digital products/software development
- Worked with Jira and Azure DevOps for managing work
- Experience with both Scrum and SAFe
- Experience in Insurance sector an asset
- Certifications: PMP, CSM, PSM I , or PSPO I