SCRUM Master

Are you a Scrum Master looking to join one of the top companies in the Banking industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have Scrum Master experience?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions seeks highly qualified candidates to work Hybrid with our client in Buffalo, NY. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• Provides servant-leadership and mentorship to one cross-functional agile team through effective application of Agile principles and frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP).
• Strengthens understanding of effective practices, theories, and techniques to support continuous improvement.
• Educates and coaches the team to create an environment that fosters self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Visualizes, communicates, and radiates team information to keep their work and impediments visible to stakeholders.
• Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices, including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, information radiators, etc., to help create high-performing teams.
• Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the team, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives.
• Facilitate meetings with the team for idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving, and alignment.
• Help the team gain transparency into their workflow through the appropriate use of information radiators.
• Address blocking issues that are beyond the team's authority or require support from other teams, so the team remains focused on achieving its goals.
• Work with other Agile leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization.
• Seek and host a variety of individual learning opportunities such as communities of practice, conferences, meetups, reading, and classroom training.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Design, implement, maintain, and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client's brand.
• Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points, together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• While not having direct management responsibility, the position manages activities through influence, accountability, and ownership, functioning in an agile environment.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $57.68 / hr.

Hours: 40 hrs/Week.

Length: Contract (10 months).

Sound like a good fit?

APPLY TODAY

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies attract and retain top talent. With a legacy of experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customise visionary talent solutions that drive the business outcomes they seek. We leverage decades of experience to deliver comprehensive staffing solutions, including contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services, worldwide.

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Minimum 1 year of Scrum Master experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience as a member of an agile team.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Prior experience fostering team self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices.
• Experience developing/managing digital capabilities.
• Understanding of Design Thinking principles.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Prior experience leading through influence.
• Good SAFe and Scrum knowledge.
• Outstanding ability to problem solve.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.