Scrum Master Job at JSR Tech Consulting, Newark, NJ

  • JSR Tech Consulting
  • Newark, NJ

Job Description

Scrum Master

Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid, 3 days/week onsite)

Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire

Pay Rate: $50 – $60/hour on W2.

No C2C

Client: Major Investment Firm

About the Team

  • Join a team of change agents who coach, teach, and guide individuals using Agile principles, practices, and frameworks
  • Partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers, and delivery professionals to improve the End User Experience
  • Bring strong problem solving, communication, teamwork, business insight, inclusive leadership, and a continuous learning mindset

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product owners to understand needs and define feature stories
  • Work with tech leads on technical design and with team members to understand systems end-to-end and deliver robust solutions with business impact
  • Bring knowledge of relevant and emerging technologies, provide feedback, and embed learning and innovation into daily work
  • Solve problems of diverse scope that require evaluation of identifiable factors
  • Ensure teams live Agile values and principles and follow agreed-upon processes to deliver committed solutions
  • Promote and support Agile principles by helping everyone understand applied theories, practices, rules, and value
  • Act as a true servant leader to the team and the larger organization
  • Help stakeholders outside the team improve their interactions with the team to increase value delivered
  • Support all aspects of risk management and impediment resolution

Required Qualifications

  • Proven experience as a Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, or comparable Agile delivery leadership role
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies
  • Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes needed for sound decision making
  • Ability to leverage diverse ideas, experiences, and perspectives for the benefit of the organization
  • Commitment to continuous learning through self-initiative
  • Excellent problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Experience With Several of the Following

  • Agile principles and frameworks, including story writing, estimation, facilitation, and continuous improvement (CI)
  • Performing the Scrum Master role on teams with highly complex outcomes
  • Facilitating and tracking Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), prioritization, backlog refinement, and specialty workshops
  • Delivery, reporting and metrics, and Agile toolchains (Jira, Jira Align, Miro, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification
  • Scrum Master experience supporting multiple teams in the financial services industry
  • Project Management experience
  • Understanding of Device Lifecycle Management

Job Tags

Contract work, 3 days per week

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