Lead Scrum Master/Agile Coach Job

LEAD SCRUM MASTER/AGILE COACH needed for a CONTRACT opportunity with Yoh's client located in St. Louis, MO.

The Big Picture - Top Skills You Should Possess:

- Service to the Team
- Service to the Product Owner
- Service to the Organization

What You'll Be Doing:

- Organizational change agent
- Highly effective at administration of basic scrum cadence (Stand-ups, sprint planning, demo, retro, etc.) - understands and communicates the "why"
- Shares and spreads knowledge in the agile community
- Creates high performing team with a collective sense of ownership and drive to deliver
- Innovates new techniques to evolve agile concepts
- Guide teams in establishing and following effective processes to manage planning, development and deployment
- Guide the team and organization on applying agile practices and values to deliver results
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Guide the team on how to get the most of out self-organization
- Assess the scrum/kanban maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable for the team and organization
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and sharing of information
- Collaborate and drive feature prioritization planning and backlog grooming with business stakeholders
- Write user stories and order product backlog items
- Develop, track and publish qualitative and quantitative metrics, dashboards, etc. to communicate progress to stakeholders
- Resolve conflicts and lead the team to ensure roadblocks and open issues are removed.
- Foresee risks and dependencies and managed them proactively
- Analyze risk and report problems and delays in meeting commitments
- Coach and mentor agile practices across the organization

What You Need to Bring to the Table:

- Strong professional experience and a proven understanding with iterative development, incremental software delivery, and the "why" behind it
- Expertise in guiding team and enterprise level transitions to Kanban, Scrum, XP and Continuous Delivery principles and practices
- Demonstrated knowledge with the principles behind emergent requirements
- Excellent understanding of agile metrics (eg how to build a burn-down, track velocity/cycle time, backlog tracking, and task definition)
- Ability to handle a number of simultaneous tasks, demonstrate a sense of urgency and ownership to drive issues to completion
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge with a solid understanding of project management fundamentals (time/scope/cost)
- Expertise in making continuous improvement changes, especially as it relates to software development
- Exceptional facilitation skills; must be able to lead and demonstrate value add principles with transparency (eg desire to bring disclosure and grow trust)
- Proven ability to lead teams to self-organize and work independently with limited supervision.
- Experience using agile life cycle management tools such as JIRA or similar
- Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship-building skills conducive to collaboration at all levels

Education or Equivalent Experience:

- Must have at least five (5+) years of experience on Agile Development Teams
- Must have at least five (5+) years of project management experience
- Must have at least three (3) years of Scrum Master experience
- Bachelor's degree, ideally in a technical discipline with a development background

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RECRUITER: Alycia Gotthold

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

J2W: INFOTECH

Tax Term: CON_W2J2WBRSTL

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Branch: IT & Telecom