Scrum Master Location: Charlotte, NC (Tues - Thurs onsite) Duration: 12-months, contract-to-hire Pay: $50-55/hour JOB DESCRIPTION Our global Fortune 500 client, with U.S. headquarters in Charlotte, NC, is a world class food service provider with a strong presence across the nation. Celebrating almost 30 years in North America, this employee-focused company has received honors for diversity and inclusion, innovation, health and wellness, and company culture. CRG has successfully placed over 220 employees within the last 7 years within this organization, known for its continuous growth opportunities, fantastic benefits package, innovative technology, flexible work environment, and collaborative culture. The Scrum Master is responsible for leading, facilitating, and motivating the Scrum Teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering agile products that provide exceptional business value to users.This role will be responsible for serving several concurrent high visibility product teams using the Scrum methodology in a fast-paced environment across many lines of business. The Scrum Master is a servant leader to the Scrum Team, Product Owner and organization who serves by upholding Scrum as prescribed by the Scrum Guide and provides coaching at all levels in an emerging agile environment. Candidates should have excellent written and oral communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and outstanding analytical and research skills, as well as a passion for agile practices and emerging technologies. In addition to being a seasoned, well-trained professional, the successful candidate will be a strategic thinker with the ability to inspire confidence from, and to collaborate closely with technology leaders and internal stakeholders. RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serving the Scrum Team by resolving impediments, helping the team to focus on creating value each Sprint and providing continuous coaching on how to apply Scrum methodologies
- Serving the Product Owner by helping to manage the Product Backlog as needed, assisting in clearly communicating goals and work items to the Scrum Team, and facilitating communication between the Scrum Team and its stakeholders when necessary
- Facilitating collaboration cross-team where dependencies exist
- Ensuring the team holds all Scrum Events including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective in a productive way within the prescribed timebox
- Monitoring key metrics on the team's performance to drive understanding of velocity and increase overall effectiveness
- Ensuring all artifacts are transparent to the organization and stakeholders to promote quick and collaborative decision making
- Helping teams take feedback from the Sprint Retrospective and turn it into process improvement items
- Ensuring teams are adhering to the Definition of Done
- Working in collaboration with the Agile Delivery Manager and other members of agile leadership to promote continued growth and maturity of agile practices within the organization
- Assisting in managing applications and products throughout agile development lifecycle, ensuring business relevance, adoption, and continuous improvement
- Fostering an environment of trust within the Scrum Teams that promotes the values of Scrum
QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
- Agile practitioner mindset with an understanding of common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and iterative development practices
- Ability to apply Scrum methodologies to help solve complex problems
- Minimum 5 years of experience in IT full development life cycle
- Demonstrated track record of successful ability to manage large and complex software implementations
- Flexibility to work with teams, individuals and executives and willingness to help with a wide variety of work products and people
- Ability to establish immediate credibility with clients, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence.
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