Scrum Master-(USC) (GC)- W2 Only - Hybrid

Identify project stakeholders and facilitate selection and formation of the scrum team

Conduct daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings Work with development team in story grooming, story estimating, and creation of epics and personas

Facilitate the acceptance of stories into a sprint, working with development team and product owner

Facilitate team standups to understand what has been completed, what will be worked on, and what impediments exist Work with product owner and others to remove impediments to ensure that the development team can stay focused and productive

Communicate and coordinate with other teams including participation in scrum of scrums Work to identify improvements by facilitating retrospectives Support product owner with backlog management

Skills:

Minimum 6 years of IT and 5 years of previous Scrum Master experience with agile development/DevOps teams.

Proficiency in analytical, organizational, project management, interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral)

Knowledge of industry standard Agile methodologies and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP Proficiency in using Agile tools (e.g., Rally or Jira) to manage backlog

Proficiency in Agile Story

Estimation Ability to perform detail-oriented business and technical analysis to discover, refine, and document the requirements for technically-oriented projects into Epics, Features, and/or Stories

Customer- and relationship-focused, process-driven, metric-focused, results-oriented, organized, self-directed Ability to multi-task and solve problems innovatively