Scrum Master

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Job description

Scrum Master

Primarily Remote (Would need to travel to Tampa, FL)

Contract-to-Hire

Our enterprise retail client is seeking a Scrum Master within the Data and Analytics Organization. This Scrum Master will be responsible for managing the portfolio of projects within the data and analytics team as well as helping define best practices within Agile. They will be responsible for working with the PMO Manager as well as Director, Enterprise Data Management & Analytics to capture, allocate, and complete work across the portfolio - ensuring the work is completed on-time & on-budget, escalating issues/risks when they surface. If you are an established Scrum Master that has helped organizations through Agile Transformations, apply today!

Responsibilities:

· This role will support the Director, Enterprise Data Management & Analytics, to manage work across the portfolio of projects within the data and analytics team

· Track concurrent activities across different projects within the portfolio

· Be the point of contact on data and analytics development projects, providing project updates, milestones, and budget documentation.

· Facilitate the work getting done through daily standups, sprint planning, retros, and backlog management across the portfolio

· Interface with business stakeholders to collect business and technical requirements, translating requirements into user stories and/or business/data requirements documents

· Break-out collected requirements into tasks which are granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint

Lead testing sessions, capturing bugs, new scope, etc,, adding to the backlog and prioritizing based on business value

· Resolves requirement & priority conflicts.

· Be the authority to accept or reject work as "done"

· Create, maintain, and prioritize the Backlog based on business priorities (working with the business to prioritize as needed)

· Define successful outcomes and approves Success Criteria at the story, bug, & task level

· Identify opportunities for process improvement, and work with the team in implementing changes to process and technology (ensuring all processes are documented in SOPs/BPPs)

· Collaborate with the team, contributing, when possible, to other data and analytics teamwork such as unit testing, process documentation, etc.

Qualifications

· Enterprise experience as a Scrum Master working across multiple teams and interfacing with high-level stakeholders

· Experience helping organizations define Scrum and Agile best practices

· At least 5 years of experience of working with multiple functional domain teams including Developers, QA & Business Analysts

· Experience using JIRA or Azure Dev Ops

· Agile Hybrid development (Preferred)

· Impeccable communication skills - both written and verbal

· Thorough documentation skills

· Ability to coordinate meetings and discussions with remote teams spread across multiple locations

· Strong interpersonal skills: especially the ability to deal gracefully yet effectively with demanding stakeholders

· Adaptable with willingness to do whatever is required to see a task or goal to completion

· Experience in large corporations, dealing with matrixed organizations

· Good level of technical background to drive the deliverables assigned to the team members

· Good experience of status reporting, client interfacing & risk management

· Should possess good analytical and communication skills

Certifications

· CSM (Preferred)

· PMP Certified (Preferred)