Scrum Master

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title: Scrum Master

Job Type : Onsite - Contract

Duration: 12 months (with possible extension/ Conversion)

Location: Brooklyn, OH

Pay Range: $60/hr to $67/hr

Job Description
The Scrum Master plays a meaningful role in delivering high-quality modern solutions software as part of a cross-functional agile scrum team. This role will be accountable for acting as a leader to the scrum team, acting to surface and resolve team-level sprint risks and roadblocks while facilitating scrum ceremonies. This role will also act as a change agent, evangelizing the tents of agile and scrum across Clients Merchant Services and other Client Technology, Operations and Service initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a Change Agent with a passion for supporting teams to transform their behaviors toward an agile environment
• Facilitate Scrum processes and events enabling team maturity and effectiveness leveraging data driven metrics
• Create an agile mindset with focus on agile value and principles leading with transparency, inspection, and adaptation resulting in delivery of high value increments which meet the Definition of Done
• Enable teams to develop sprint goals, robust product backlogs, acceptance criteria, definitions of done / ready
• Facilitate program level agile ceremonies to include dependency mapping, release planning, and scope alignment across Product teams
• Enable the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team's progress
• Facilitate communication and partnership inside and outside the team to include stakeholder engagement
• Protect the team from distractions allowing for focus to meet sprint and program commitments
• Promote self-organization and cross-functionality of the team coaching each role to enable high performance of the team

Qualifications: Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience 6+ years working in an agile environment as a development team member, Scrum Master or Product Owner
• 5+ years working as a Scrum Master
• Expert in facilitation, problem solving and influencing outcomes
• Expert knowledge of best practices in value driven development (requirements management, prototyping, hypothesis driven development, usability testing)
• Expert knowledge of agile tool suites including Atlassian (Jira and Confluence), MS Teams, Monday.com or similar agile management tools

Desired:

• Experience as a Project Manager in a waterfall environment. Familiarity with both agile and waterfall is a bonus
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale enterprise agile transformation with experience as a Scrum Master in a scaled environment

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.

Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.