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    Scrum Master: Agile - Los Angeles, United States - KORE1

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    THIS ROLE REQUIRES 3 DAYS A WEEK ONSITE WORK IN LOS ANGELES (NEAR THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT).

    KORE1, a nationwide provider of staffing and recruiting solutions, has an immediate opening for a Scrum Master: Agile (Scrum / Kanban) / Agile coaching & Jira best practices

    The Sr. Scrum Master has a key role within an Agile delivery team as it removes any impediments that obstruct a team's pursuit of its sprint goals and ultimately delivers products that generate business value for the organization

    This role is a brand ambassador not only to technology at the company, but to the IT Strategy & Programs team as we continue to grow and develop our brand. The IT Strategy & Programs mission is to function as a visible center of excellence that promotes transformation, service excellence and disciplined execution supporting our digital transformation strategy, the success of our partners and the organization. We are an ambitious team with an entrepreneurial mindset. We seek to inspire, influence and collaborate within and across teams.

    Responsibilities

    As the Sr. Scrum Master, you will have the following responsibilities:

    • Enables Agile teams to follow an agile development process that seamlessly aligns with business and technical needs
    • Proactively help the team accelerate the speed of delivering value to our business, improve predictability, increase quality of deliverables and establish a culture of self-organization
    • Facilitate medium to high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight to ensure alignment with Agile/Scrum practices
    • Accountable along with the Agile team for the achievement of PI Objectives
    • Manage risk to delivery by raising / resolving impediments in a timely manner
    • Proactive management of external dependencies
    • Create/maintain the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the scrum team (e.g. tracker boards) to create a trusting and safe team environment
    • Track & report team progress leveraging appropriate Agile metrics (i.e. Capacity, Burndown, Velocity charts, etc.)
    • Facilitate Scrum team ceremonies; Daily Stand Up, Refinement, Planning, Demos & Retrospectives
    • Provide updates on Team's progress against goals, proactively manage dependency communications & provide appropriate watch out items in the Scrum of Scrums
    • Proactive cross-functional communication, ensuring transparency of progress and outcomes; anticipate need and proactively report team progress and accomplishment(s) up and across
    • Facilitate discussion leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution within the team
    • Comply fully with all firm policies and procedures as well as all regulatory requirement(s)
    • Navigate and identify shared IT services required by the team in the delivery of its objectives
    • Ability to identify and propose areas of improvement

    Qualifications

    The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

    • Bachelor degree is a plus, especially one in Computer Science
    • Agile Scrum / SAFe Certified Agile Practitioner / Certified Scrum Master certs are a plus
    • Minimum 5 years of experience in one or more agile methodologies (Scrum, LeSS, Kanban, XP, TDD) for software development and how they can be applied in a product development / program delivery environment
    • Minimum 5 years proficiency with Jira or other Agile Management tools
    • Expert in Agile environment using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, XP, Kanban, or other Agile methodologies.
    • Extensive knowledge of Jira best practices, including workflow, board setup and issue type hierarchy
    • Experience leading distributed/virtual teams
    • Experience operating within various agile frameworks and implementation of Agile methodologies to multiple teams in large-scale enterprise change projects & programs
    • Growth mindset, learning mindset, strategic thinking
    • Excellent communication and facilitation skills
    • Organizational change management experience
    • Ability to influence at all levels without straight line authority
    • Experience with modern software engineering techniques such as Continuous integration, build, deliver, test-driven development and other automated acceptance testing techniques
    • Ability to work effectively in a rapidly changing, fluid and dynamic environment
    • Highly collaborative, excellent interpersonal skills and able to work with diverse personality types
    • Motivate and enable the Agile teams to be self-organized and make them feel like awesome team members
    • Good understanding of SDLC and the components within SDLC

    Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

    • Confluence
    • Jira
    • SDLC
    • AWS environments
    • Data structures & reporting

    Compensation depends on experience but is typically $50-72/hr W2


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