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Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Remote IT Scrum Master w/PM Experience for a Contract assignment with one of our premier Healthcare Services clients in Jacksonville, FL. Required Skills - Agile/Scrum/SAFe - Highly adaptable and an independent thinker Preferred Skills: - CA Agile Rally exp preferred - Healthcare (Florida blue) exp preferred - Prior PM Exp - SAfe knowledge/understanding Responsibilities :
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-up meetings, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews/demos, and sprint retrospectives.
- Assist the scrum team to become a self-organized, cross-functional, and highly efficient team that delivers high-quality products
- Facilitate documenting and executing the team's continuous improvement plan, based on retrospectives
- Clarify deliverables and assignments and remove impediments
- Provide leadership with metrics necessary to make decisions
- Determine ways to improve throughput, velocity and allow the team flexibility to self-manage themselves, especially on items identified from the retrospective
- Manage Issues, Risk, Dependencies, and Change Request following the established PMO guidelines.
- Experience utilizing the CA Agile Rally tool
- 3-5 years related work experience leading Agile / Scrum projects
- Computer Science or Information Technology or related Bachelor's degree required or relevant work experience
- Mid to high-level Scrum Master that has PM capabilities. Florida Blue experience is a nice to have.
- Agile/Scrum/Scala exp
- Highly adaptable and an independent thinker
- Able to lead multiple Scrum Teams
- Strong knowledge of various well-documented Agile patterns and techniques (e.g. multiple Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, Release planning, Capacity planning, handling bugs, etc.)
- Partner with IT technical staff and Business Sponsor to ensure the design accomplishes both business and technical requirements
- Solid knowledge and experience in various Project Management and Product Development concepts, methodologies, and processes
- Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities.
- Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback.
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly and articulately.
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
- Understanding of and SDLC disciplines
- Understanding of the concepts, theories, and processes of the Project Management Methodology.
- Broad knowledge of IT functions.
- Demonstrated proficiency in the use of labor, cost management, and project tracking and management tools such as MS Project.
- Ability to lead and facilitate project team status meetings to obtain schedule, issues, risk , and dependency updates.
- Ability to organize and prioritize workload.
- Strong Communications (written and verbal)
- Strong PC skills specifically utilizing the MS Office Suite products (e.g., MS Word, MS Excels, etc.).
- Expert in MS Project 2010
- Expert in MS Excel
- CA Agile Rally exp preferred
- Healthcare (Florida blue) exp preferred
- Prior PM Exp
- SAfe knowledge/understanding
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