Job Description
Scrum Master
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Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid, 3 days/week onsite)
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Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire
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Pay Rate: $50 – $60/hour on W2.
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No C2C
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Client: Major Investment Firm
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About the Team
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- Join a team of change agents who coach, teach, and guide individuals using Agile principles, practices, and frameworks
- Partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers, and delivery professionals to improve the End User Experience
- Bring strong problem solving, communication, teamwork, business insight, inclusive leadership, and a continuous learning mindset
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Key Responsibilities
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- Collaborate with product owners to understand needs and define feature stories
- Work with tech leads on technical design and with team members to understand systems end-to-end and deliver robust solutions with business impact
- Bring knowledge of relevant and emerging technologies, provide feedback, and embed learning and innovation into daily work
- Solve problems of diverse scope that require evaluation of identifiable factors
- Ensure teams live Agile values and principles and follow agreed-upon processes to deliver committed solutions
- Promote and support Agile principles by helping everyone understand applied theories, practices, rules, and value
- Act as a true servant leader to the team and the larger organization
- Help stakeholders outside the team improve their interactions with the team to increase value delivered
- Support all aspects of risk management and impediment resolution
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Required Qualifications
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- Proven experience as a Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, or comparable Agile delivery leadership role
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes needed for sound decision making
- Ability to leverage diverse ideas, experiences, and perspectives for the benefit of the organization
- Commitment to continuous learning through self-initiative
- Excellent problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills
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Experience With Several of the Following
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- Agile principles and frameworks, including story writing, estimation, facilitation, and continuous improvement (CI)
- Performing the Scrum Master role on teams with highly complex outcomes
- Facilitating and tracking Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), prioritization, backlog refinement, and specialty workshops
- Delivery, reporting and metrics, and Agile toolchains (Jira, Jira Align, Miro, etc.)
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Preferred Qualifications
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- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification
- Scrum Master experience supporting multiple teams in the financial services industry
- Project Management experience
- Understanding of Device Lifecycle Management
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