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Scrum Master - REMOTE

Job title: Scrum Master - REMOTE
Contract type: Freelance
Discipline: Retail
Remote: No
Reference: 402458
Contact name: Shivani Sharma

Job description

Our Lifestyle brand client seeks a Scrum Master with a proven track record delivering world-class products within complex digital environments for a 12 month contract that has potential to extend and possibly become full time. The ideal candidate will bring a broad range of lean and agile experiences working within large-scale organizations. Specifically, knowledge working with digital technologies and processes at scale.

In this role, you will:

• • Ensuring the team’s process evolves within organizational guidelines and standards of practice

• • Must be able to nurture self-managing, high performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring

• • Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and team insight for continuous improvement

• • Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and processes

• • Excellent communicator, able to gain the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and management

• • Resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation

• • Identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution

• • Must be able to facilitate the development process

• • Uphold as well as coach and mentor, agile values and principles as expressed in the Agile Manifesto

• • Create a fully transparent development process

• • Capable of being a scrum master for one to three scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work

• • Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, retrospectives, sprint demo and sprint reviews

• • Assist the team with implementing effective agile disciplinary practices

• • Support cross-team coordination

• • Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal

• • Support product team in ensuring product backlog is groomed

Qualifications:

• • 5+ years of relevant IT experience including strong understanding of customer/stakeholder relationships, business analysis, prioritization, estimation and capacity management

• • Must understand iterative/incremental software development

• • Advanced knowledge of agile processes such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFE and XP

• • Must have recognized education in agile processes, certifications preferred

• • Must have been a member of an agile team for at least 2 years

• • Able to lead a team to make realistic and achievable delivery commitments

• • Understand agile metrics and reporting techniques

• • Experience using Jira to track and make visible sprint backlog work flow preferred

• • Experience in educating and promotion of agile engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous delivery, TDD, BDD and refactoring preferred

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