Scrum Master

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce's Phoenix based client is looking to add TWO Scrum Masters to their team. These roles are fully remote (MST/Arizona hours). These are contract roles, nine months in duration to start. The role can be performed from anywhere in the United States (MST/Arizona hours).

Summary:
The Scrum Master role requires a proactive individual with a bias for action, responsible for providing effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching to support the agile development process. As an agile expert, the Scrum Master enforces agile principles, removes impediments, and promotes empowerment through self-organizing teams. This role actively guides teams and the organization in leveraging agile practices and values to maximize business value delivery for stakeholders. The Scrum Master will receive mentorship from senior leaders and provide mentoring to junior Scrum Masters.

Principal Responsibilities:
* Serve as Scrum Master for 3-4 Agile teams
* Establish and uphold Agile values and principles, fostering a culture of openness, team self-organization, continuous improvement, and flexibility to adapt to emerging business needs
* Coach teams on the basics of Scrum and/or Kanban
* Coach IT and Business Leadership on Agile principles to facilitate change
* Propose, champion, and empower experimentation for agile teams in their development goals
* Anticipate issues that may develop and organize team resources to evaluate and resolve
* Facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives
* Establish Agile backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definitions
* Focus teams on delivering value quickly through iterations
* Coordinate across other Agile and traditional teams for complex projects
* Escalate and/or resolve impediments to help teams ship code regularly
* Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

REQUIREMENTS:
* Scrum Master certification
* Minimum of 3 years of combined technology development experience in a Scrum Master, Project Manager, or Developer role
* Minimum of two years of experience as a Scrum Master
* Strong understanding of Scrum techniques and associated artifacts, including User Stories, Backlog Refinement, Definition of Done, etc.
* Proven successful experience in converting development teams to agile processes
* Demonstrated knowledge of various agile techniques - Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.
* Proven successful experience in leading and driving complex, time-critical software development projects
* Experience with software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
* Outstanding communication skills
* Strong time management and organizational skills

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

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