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ID #21740975
State Missouri
City Saintlouis
Job type Contract
Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
Source Denken Solutions
Showed 2021-10-27
Date 2021-10-27
Deadline 2021-12-25
Category Et cetera
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Scrum Master Specialist

Missouri, Saintlouis, 63101 Saintlouis USA

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Currently, we are looking for talented resources for one of our listed clients. If interested please reply to me with your updated resume or feel free to reach out to me for more details at

949-208-7672

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Title: Scrum Master Specialist

Location: Saint Louis, MO

Duration:12 Months

Job Description:
  • The Scrum Master ensures the smooth operation of all Agile product team processes and activities, acting as the delivery lead for a product or set of products. This includes organizing and running daily stand-ups, sprint planning and sizing sessions, backlog grooming sessions, and end-of-sprint ceremonies. S/He is a guardian of the team's mood. This role is responsible for tracking sprint progress and burn-down by creating dashboards and reports as needed. The Scrum Master ensures that everyone has a holistic view and helps facilitate discussions across different team members.
  • This position is in the Hive which is a centralized, multidisciplinary team within the Client business that is responsible to lead the data and analytics transformation through strategy, literacy, use-case orchestration, products and services. Teams (swarms) within the Hive are typically 5-8 people and this scrum master will be responsible for up to two teams. There will be 8-9 agile teams (swarms) within the Hive overall. Agile certifications are strongly preferred for this position and experience building out an agile practice is highly desired.

Beyond the knowledge of Agile techniques, scrum masters must be:
  • Servant Leaders: Garner respect from their team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done.
  • Politically savvy: Work/collaborate/communicate effectively with upper management, stakeholders and other external dependencies.
  • Communicative and social: Communicate clearly with their team.
  • Entrepreneurial: Comfortable experimenting, being wrong, accepting constructive feedback, adapting, and moving on.
  • Facilitative: Lead and demonstrate value-add principles to their team.
  • Assertive: Ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to; be a voice of reason and command authority to make tough calls.
  • Situationally aware: Able to identify differences of opinions and issues as they arise.
  • Enthusiastic: Transfer their high energy to their team.
  • Continuously improving: Continually grow their craft, and learn new tools and techniques to support themselves and their team.
  • ble to resolve conflicts: Facilitate discussion and alternatives or different approaches.
  • Empowered: Able to help their team self-organize.
  • Transparent: Provide transparency to the business about product development, thereby growing business trust.

Technical Skills:
  • 5+ years of working with software development teams in an agile environment
  • Deep knowledge of agile practices and techniques is required
  • Previous Scrum Master experience a plus
  • Certifications a plus, for example SAFe, Certified Scrum Master etc.
  • Experience with effective communication at different levels in the organization and in English
  • Basic understanding of Data and Analytics or Business Intelligence operations and key deliverables is strongly preferred
  • Proficiency with Microsoft DevOps is strongly preferred

Education Required:
  • Bachelors in associated field or 5+ years of relevant experience

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