H1 & ID MUST - Need 10+ Years Certified Scrum Master with ALM exp (TFS, JIRA, CA/Rally, VersionOne, etc) - NY

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Dec 8, 2017, 3:19:20 PM12/8/17

H1 & ID Copy MUST for submission

Position: Scrum Master

Location: Buffalo, NY

Duration: 6+ Months

The Scrum Master provides servant-leadership and mentorship to a cross-functional agile team. This position will guide and serve teams that deliver technology solutions, through effective application of the Lean/Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban Method, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The Scrum Master will coach the team to create strong skills in self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 10 years of Scrum Master experience or 7 years’ experience within an Agile team actively practicing Scrum

OR in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 10 years’ higher education and/or work experience,

Scrum Master Certification

Experience with one or more ALM tools (e.g. TFS, JIRA, CA/Rally, VersionOne, etc.)

Expert understanding of Agile principles and experience with a wide variety of agile approaches, such as Scrum, SAFe, XP, Kanban and Lean, and how they work to deliver business value. Expertise in how various Agile practices can and should evolve, including: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, Ceremony facilitation, etc.

Demonstrated leadership ability to coach and empower the team to reach their highest potential. Excellent team player and team builder

Expert skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to address issues with team dynamics, excel at coaching team members around agile concepts

Proven ability to identify the right person(s) or portion of the organization needed to remove impediments, or guiding the team to remove impediments themselves

Supports and coaches the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog, educating the Product Owner, with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog

Ensures a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team

Coaches the team members on the Agile values and principles such as collaboration, self-organization, cross-functionality, prioritization, team accountability and transparency

Ensures understanding of the spirit of Scrum, coach on scrum practices, and facilitate Scrum ceremonies

Fosters a motivating culture of openness, self-organization, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Coaches the team to higher levels of agile maturity, especially focused on Agile engineering practices, within a sustainable pace of change

Facilitates discussion, problem-solving, decision making, conflict resolution, and delivery of committed work goals

Actively addresses blocking issues that are beyond the teams authority, or require support from other teams, so that the team can remain focused on achieving the Sprint Goal

Communicates effectively across diverse audiences within and outside of the team (Management, Stakeholders, Executives). Helps protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work.

Champions and promotes SAFe quality practices

Works with and/or coaches other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization