Scrum Master

Join a leading organization in the financial services sector, committed to empowering individuals and institutions through innovative solutions and exceptional service. Partnering with Aquent, we are seeking talented professionals to drive forward our mission of delivering unparalleled value to our clients.

Are you a passionate servant-leader ready to guide high-performing teams in an agile environment? We are seeking a dynamic individual to champion the Scrum methodology, fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. In this pivotal role, you will empower development teams to deliver significant business value, directly impacting the evolution of our client-focused solutions.

What You Will Do

• Manage and continuously improve the Scrum process within software development teams, ensuring adherence to the Scrum framework.
• Coach teams to higher levels of maturity, facilitating their adoption and enhancement of Scrum methodologies.
• Lead efforts to provide comprehensive Scrum training for all team members and stakeholders.
• Serve as the authoritative voice on the Scrum framework, educating and evangelizing its benefits.
• Act as a servant-leader, guiding dedicated teams to deliver significant business value through effective development and delivery execution.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure appropriate development and delivery of prioritized backlogs.
• Facilitate discussions, decision-making, and conflict resolution within and across teams.
• Champion Agile values and principles, fostering an environment of transparency and continuous improvement.
• Remove impediments that hinder the team's ability to achieve Sprint goals.
• Ensure critical information, such as backlogs and progress charts, is highly visible to all stakeholders.
• Support AI-native engineering teams in optimizing their agile practices.
• Assist Product Owners with communication, impediment removal, and maintenance of the backlog and release plan.
• Foster an environment that encourages creativity and empowerment within the development team.
• Improve engineering practices and tools to ensure teams have the necessary resources for success.
• Maintain consistent and clear communication with Product Owners, development teams, and various stakeholders.
• Act as a Scrum Master for two or more Agile teams simultaneously.
• Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to encourage teams to adopt and mature good Scrum processes.
• Cultivate a motivated, self-organizing, and self-sufficient team environment.
• Organize and facilitate effective Scrum meetings, including backlog grooming, Sprint planning, daily Scrum, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective.
• Encourage teams to routinely inspect and adapt their processes.
• Assist teams in establishing a consistent and predictable team-level cadence.
• Identify and facilitate the removal of team impediments, escalating as appropriate.
• Work with and coach Product Owners on developing, managing, and continuously grooming the product backlog.
• In partnership with the Product Owner, track and communicate key information such as team velocity, Sprint/release progress, impediments, and team successes to stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Project Managers to facilitate cross-team collaboration when projects require it.
• Assist Product Owners and Project Managers with planning and grooming activities.

What You Bring

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated servant leadership, earning respect from teams and embodying value-add principles.
• Excellent communication and social skills, fostering strong team interactions.
• High enthusiasm and energy, inspiring and motivating teams.
• Proven success in scaling AI-Assisted software development across multiple teams.
• A commitment to continual improvement, constantly learning and growing your craft and your teams.
• An attitude of transparency, promoting disclosure and trust between business and development.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent related experience.
• Full understanding and conversant knowledge of the Scrum process as defined by the Scrum Guide.
• A thorough understanding and appreciation for Agile values and principles.
• Thorough understanding of:
  
  
  
  • Backlog grooming and relative estimating.
  • Release planning.
  • Sprint planning.
  • Scrum metrics such as Sprint burndown, release burnup, and velocity.
  • Sprint review best practices and techniques.
  • A variety of retrospective techniques.
  
  
  
  
• 5+ years of experience in a software development environment, preferably involving cross-team dependencies.
• 3+ years of experience owning and managing customer expectations, project schedules, status and reporting, and change management.
• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master.
• Experience leading teams in a large, complex enterprise environment where successful projects may involve more than one Scrum team.
• Ability to apply a wide variety of patterns and techniques to enable team success.
• Knowledge of project management fundamentals.
• Strong conflict resolution skills, able to facilitate discussion and effectively resolve issues.
• Proven facilitation skills, capable of leading and demonstrating value-add principles to a team.
• Assertiveness to ensure Agile and Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, acting as a voice of reason and authority.
• Situationally aware, proactively identifying and elevating issues as they arise.
• An attitude of empowerment, capable of leading a team to self-organization.
• Strong grasp of software development and technology concepts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Scrum Master certification.
• Experience with one or more scaled Agile frameworks (e.g., SAFe, LeSS, DAD, Nexus).
• Previous experience as a traditional project and/or program manager.
• DevOps experience, including continuous integration, continuous build, and continuous delivery tools and techniques.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match.

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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