Scrum Master || Boston MA (Local only)
Shaily Juneja
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Position Title: Scrum Master
Position Type: 6 Months Contract with possible extension
Location: Boston, MA, United States
Rate: $70/hr
Description:
- This is a mid-senior level role that will be supporting the Investor Research team.
- Candidate must be local to Boston and have deep Agile, Scrum, and Kanban knowledge.
- 6+ years of experience at an asset management company.
- This role requires the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with demanding and complex personalities as well as senior leadership.
- This will support 2 Global Investment Technology (GIT) portfolio focused teams that use tools like Jira, Aha, SharePoint, Power Automate and Confluence.
- In addition, the manager is looking for someone with experience leveraging AI.They currently have an internal ChatGPT they use as well as Copilot.
- Candidates with experience as Project Managers or who have held hybrid roles will be considered, however, they must have solid hands on Scrum Master experience with an Agile mindset.
- Practice and encourage Agile mindset and behaviors; coach, inspire and mentor teams on Agile principles, values, and practices while role modeling the organization’s leadership behaviors.
- Independently lead the application of Agile practices (Scrum or Kanban) for multiple teams. Examples such as visualizing work, limiting work in progress, managing workflow, planning and guidance for daily stand ups, sprint planning, short, mid, and long-range planning, backlog refinement, and retrospective meetings.
- Enable progress toward objectives, KPIs and commitments; guide assigned Agile teams in delivering the required product increments and outcomes.
- Identify opportunities to improve team-level Agile performance; focus teams on customer value, quality, and continuous improvement activities.
- Remove team-level impediments and resolve conflicts; anticipate challenges, identify risks, and recommend mitigations and solutions.
- Utilize learnings and best practices in furthering the effective use of Agile practices.
- Facilitate open communication among team members and stakeholders; promote positive team dynamics to ensure members collaborate and work effectively.
- Build and leverage effective alliances across other teams and the technical and business communities.
- Partner with leadership on scaled planning activities, organizing, and leading scale ceremonies.
- Participate and actively contribute to the Agile Community
- Increase the overall Agile maturity for teams and support higher complexity work towards successful outcomes.
- Supports Agile team(s) that have various levels of agile maturity; actively works to upskill those teams in agile practices and increases their overall agile maturity.
- May also play a scrum-of-scrum role, managing the flow of work through an entire domain rather than on an individual team or teams.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Five to seven years’ experience in a Scrum Master or similar Agile role applying Agile principles and practices including delivery of several epics, releases and versions and application of a wide variety of patterns and techniques (i.e., leveraging burndown, facilitating retrospectives, refining user stories, etc.) preferred.
- Programming/development experience preferred.
- Experience implementing best practices and standards related to Agile product development preferred.
- Experience leading others with the ability to earn trust while still challenging the team to improve and operate outside its comfort zone in an Agile environment preferred.
- Agile Mindset: Embody Agile core values of openness, courage, respect, focus, and commitment. Infuse Agile principles, practices, and methodologies to achieve team success.
- Project Management: Ability to initiate, plan, execute, and guide the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria within a specified time.
- Influence: Ability to influence leaders at all levels and without traditional hierarchy.
- Servant Leadership: Foster an environment where individuals thrive as empowered and equal members of a team.
- Communication: Ability to communicate thoughts, concepts, and practices effectively at all levels, adjusting as needed to a target audience.
- Collaboration: Expertise working with others in a cross-functional multi-team environment.
- Continuous Improvement: Demonstrate a commitment to continually improve, share learning with others and encourage team development.
Regards,
Shaily Juneja
Talent Acquisition SME
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