Scrum Master

LanceSoft, Inc. • Contract • United Kingdom • 6h ago

Job Details:
Job Title: Scrum Master
Location: White Plains, NY
Duration: 12 Months
Pay Range: $40.00 - $50.00 per hour
Hybrid Role: Min 3 days/week in office
Work Schedule: Monday through Friday 7.5-hour workday with 0.5-hour unpaid lunch, paid for time worked only.

Project Overview:
This Scrum Master role will support the digital product development team on the client’s Account Center website. This role will coordinate and facilitate Agile Scrum processes within the team, ensuring collaborative and efficient work delivering on customer value and need, producing high-quality solutions.

Job Functions & Responsibilities:

Manage the scope and timeline for the team, facilitating Scrum ceremonies - daily stand ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospectives. Coach team members in Agile frameworks and facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.
Work with product owners to prioritize epics and backlogs and support new intake requests and steering meetings with stakeholders and leadership
Provide clarity, ensuring that the goals, outcomes and scope are understood by everyone
Manage planning, risks, timelines, estimation and reporting
Track Scrum Team KPIs, helping the team progress and improve efficiency, maintain an Epics and Features scoreboard in Azure DevOps, dashboards to show status, progress, and risks to stakeholders
Build and maintain strong cross-team relationships ensuring alignment between the Scrum team, internal IT and other stakeholders, resolve conflicts and remove impediments
Help implement change effectively, promoting team learning with each sprint
Ensure deliverables meet agreed quality standards and Definition of Done at the end of each sprint
Guide development teams to higher Scrum maturity and apply Agile coaching as applicable
Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it
Ensure team is creating documentation such as user stories, acceptance criteria, test cases in Azure DevOps, business process flow, and other business and technical documents in a timely manner
Ensure test strategy, scenarios and scripts
Support release management activities and provide delivery and other metrics to the leadership team
Assist team in developing application support RACI and support handover documents.
Ensure prompt status reports, meeting agendas, materials, and minutes for meetings.

Skills:

Experience in a Scrum Master role
Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks
Experience with website/software development teams and authenticated portals
Hands on experience with Azure DevOps (Boards, Queries, Dashboards; Repos and Pipelines a plus).
Demonstrated ability to track, analyze, and present delivery metrics and KPIs.
Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, epics and user stories, outcomes, automated testing, backlog refinement)
Excellent communication and leadership skills
Analytics and reporting planning and follow-up
Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
Outstanding organizational

Education & Certifications:

BS in Computer Science, Information Systems or Business, or a related field from an accredited school, or equivalent.
3-5+ years of applicable experience as Scrum Master.
CSM Scrum Master certification

EEO Employer
LanceSoft is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. LanceSoft makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.