Job Description

Requisition Title: Scrum Master

Location: HYBRID at Westbrook, ME (LOCAL PROFILES ONLY)

Duration: Long Term

STRICTLY LOOKING FOR W2 profiles from WESTBROOK, ME/ NH/ MA locations only

About the job

Company Description

Coforge is a global digital services and solutions provider, leveraging emerging technologies and deep domain expertise to deliver impactful business results for clients. With a focus on select industries and partnerships with leading technology platforms, Coforge is a trusted partner in business transformations. The company employs a Product Engineering approach and uses AI, Cloud, Data, Integration, and Automation technologies to create intelligent, high-growth enterprises. Coforge operates 30 global delivery centers and has a presence in 23 countries. As an equal opportunities employer, Coforge welcomes applications from all backgrounds and does not discriminate on any protected basis.

TOP REQUIRED SKILLSETS:

• Support up to 3 teams

• Facilitate post-mortems and continuous improvement conversations as needed/appropriate.

• Facilitate all the Scrum and Agile rituals

• Remove blockers

• Assists or coordinates Jira board/Jira project requests

• Ensures follow through on Retrospective action items

• Monitors Release and Sprint burn down/burn up and facilitates course correction where required

• Helps the team organize and facilitate reviews and meetings as needed

Applies Agile methodologies to organize the development of a project, product, or service (often software) that focuses on delivering value to customers in an iterative way by leveraging inspection and adaption, continuous improvement and empowering a team. Agile methodologies help de-risk projects by increasing transparency, using shorter feedback loops and enabling decision-making closer to the work. These practices often replace high-level waterfall designs with frequent redesigns with a priority to satisfy the customer through incremental delivery of value. Scrum is an Agile framework within which teams can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value (Scrum Guide). An Agile Team in Scrum is typically three to nine people. Rather than scaling by having a large team, Scrum projects scale through having teams of teams. The team consists of the Scrum Master, the Product Owner, and the Development Team. The Development Team may consist of developers, engineers, testers, UX, solution architects, and DevOps engineers.

Job Description

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Guides team and organization on how to utilize Agile/Scrum practices, principles and values.

Provides support to team using servant leadership style, leading by example and by being an empathetic leader who serves.

Assesses Agile maturity of team and organization and coaches to higher levels of maturity.

Ensures Agile/Scrum events take place and are positive, productive and within the timebox.

Helps team find ways to deliver incrementally to provide value while decreasing risk.

Builds trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or retribution and with an emphasis on problem-solving.

Facilitates discussion, decision making and conflict resolution and advocates for the team.

Helps team develop flow for their development cycle and makes recommendations as necessary to increase efficiencies and decrease risk.

Observes sprint health indicators, identifies and socializes continuous improvement opportunities and creates team plans through retrospective reviews.

Helps team find sustainable pace while maintaining and sharing flow metrics to help with transparency, optionality and predictability.

Supports Product Owners and teams in backlog management, refinement of user stories and other product backlog items.

Works with Product Owner and team to ensure use of strong user stories with clear functional intent and well-defined acceptance criteria.

Communicates effectively with teams, Product Owners, the business and leadership.

Aids internal and external communication while improving transparency.

Identifies risk, communicates risk appropriately and recommends mitigation strategies or facilitates team discussions to create mitigation plans.

Supports organization in its Agile adoption by building learning, sharing and continuous improvement culture.

Supports local and community Agile Guilds and Communities of Practice (COP).

Helps identify training needs for new employees, teams and stakeholders in Lean, Agile and Scrum adoption.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required.

Scrum, Kanban or Agile certification preferred.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Hands-on experience with Agile (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, etc.) Knowledge of scaling Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum @ Scale, Scrum of Scrums, SAFe, or LeSS) Familiarity with software collaboration tools like Jira, Confluence, Rally, Miro and analytic tools Demonstrated experience with progressive responsibilities working with software development teams Experience with fundamentals of software development processes and procedures Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments and DevSecOps development practices Demonstrates competencies and skills related to servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency Self-starter with focus on professional development and personal continuous improvement Fosters teams that are intentional about assessing problems and devising solutions through critical thinking processes Exceptional interpersonal and teamwork skills. Capable of understanding broad range of viewpoints and building consensus Advanced verbal, presentation, facilitation and written communication skills Demonstrates high level of analytical and problem-solving skills Hits ground running and comfortable engaging and leading distributed/virtual teams Most importantly understands how to work smart yet have fun!

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