Agile Coach

Yoh has an immediate contract opportunity for an AGILE COACH to join our client in Seattle, WA. This is a 12 month project.

Job Overview:
The Scrum Master works as part of an Agile Team to produce working software. Responsibilities involves promoting and protecting the Scrum process, and working with Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, Sprint Team members, Architects, Project Managers and others to ensure the effective and efficient functioning of the Sprint team. The Scrum Master serves as a Scrum coach to the team, works within the broader organization to promote and improve the practice of Scrum, and provides status and risk information to Project Management and stakeholders.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensuring the Scrum process is followed.
- Managing the process of identifying stories ready to consider for team commitment.
- Identifying issues with team makeup (skill set, team dynamics).
- Facilitating Poker Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Stand-ups, Demos and Retrospectives.
- Provide sprint team status to Scrum of Scrums meetings.
- Managing the process of identifying and resolving impediments.
- Managing the process of tracking story status and progress.
- Tracking process improvement initiatives identified in the Retrospective and other forums, and championing Scrum process improvements.
- The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to the definition, planning and tracking of project activities to meet or exceed customer and stakeholder needs and expectations.
- Provides process and technical direction to project managers and others, which may involve acting as a scrum coach. Consults on and utilizes latest rapid development or other non-sequential project methodologies. Serves as subject matter expert on Agile development methods and processes.
- Exposure to extreme programming (XP).
- Centralized in one location with few dispersed members.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
- Three plus (3+) years in financial services industry.
- Demonstrated ability with XP.
- Looking for someone who has had experience working with teams to move to the next level of Agile (in a coaching or scrum master role)- developing high-performance teams. We are not looking for people who have experience mainly in transitioning teams from waterfall to scrum.
- Provides clear concise communication with project team and mid-level management.
- Typically possesses most skills of the traditional project manager.
- Experienced with co-located development processes/teams.
- Ability to influence or negotiate with other functional areas.

PREFERRED JOB SKILLS/CERTIFICATIONS/KNOWLEDGE:
- Experience leading projects using formal project management methodologies preferred.
- Strong; Demonstrated experience supporting requirements, data and systems analysis.

RECRUITER: Rebecca R. Moore, Senior IT Recruiter

Yoh is a professional staffing provider with over 70 years of experience in the short- and long-term staffing services industry; visit our website to learn both about our company and about our leading workforce solutions.

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.

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