*Hybrid Contract Opportunity*
Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Scrum Master position! This is a 6+ month contract to hire opportunity and will be a hybrid role, with three days/week on-site in Buffalo, NY. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.
- What You'll Be Doing:
- Provide servant-leadership and mentorship to multiple cross-functional agile teams through effective application of Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming (XP).
- Strengthen understanding of effective practices, theories and techniques to support continuous improvement. Educate and coach teams to create an environment that fosters self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency and continuous improvement. Visualize and communicate team information to keep their work and impediments visible to stakeholders.
- Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, information radiators, etc., to help create high performing teams.
- Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the agile teams, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives.
- Curate team-level coaching content used to guide teams regarding agile practices.
- Facilitate meetings with the teams for purposes of idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving and alignment.
- Help the teams gain transparency into their workflow through appropriate use of information radiators.
- Address blocking issues that are beyond the teams authority, or require support from other teams, so the teams remain focused on achieving their goals.
- Work with other Agile Leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization.
- Provide mentorship to less experienced Scrum Masters.
- Seek and host a variety of individual and team learning opportunities, such as communities of practice, conferences, meetups, reading and classroom training.
- Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
- Design, implement, maintain and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
What You'll Need to Have:
- Bachelor's Degree
- Minimum of 4 years experience as a member of an agile team
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Minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience
- Knowledge of banking industry
- Experience in a Scaled Agile environment
- Experience with Jira, Power BI, and other agile tools
- Depth of knowledge in at least two technology team roles (project manager, user experience, business analyst, developer, testing, deployment).
- Prior experience fostering team self-organization and continuous improvement.
- Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices.
- Experience developing/managing digital capabilities.
- Understanding of Design Thinking principles.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Prior experience leading through influence.
Pay Range: $48-$63/hr +
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