Scrum Master @ Talentstack Consulting

Job Description

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Be a single point of contact for clients, business development team, product team, and tech team for project progress.
• Develop complete and well thought out execution plans that incorporate sound contingency planning and risk assessments.
• Track multiple project tasks to proactively anticipate problems, while always maintaining a solution orientation and a well-balanced perspective around risks and escalations.
• Communicate effectively, using tools and processes to ensure transparency and collaboration across global teams.
• Maintain an up-to-date project plan that can be referenced at any time.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
• Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Excellent people and project management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Experience:

• 6+ years of experience as a scrum master or in a similar role.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.

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Keyskills:   scrum development agile management project methodology