About the Position

Looking for more than just an assignment? We're looking for you! This isn't just another assignment, but a real opportunity and a challenge for the right person. LRS Consulting Services is seeking a Scrum Master for a contract opportunity with our client!

LRS Consulting Services has been delivering the highest quality consultants to our clients since 1979. We've built a solid reputation for dealing with our clients and our consultants with honesty, integrity, and respect. We work hard every day to maintain that reputation, and we're very interested in candidates who can help us. If you're that candidate, this opportunity is made for you!

Responsibilities

Actively participate in discussions and take actions to evolve Agile standards and processes
Establish, communicate, and follow standards across development teams and work to evolve new practices and ensure ownership
Ensure standards, processes, and tools support successful sprint / cycle activities, visible via metrics
Guide the team in Agile / Scrum practices aligned with our standards, facilitating Scrum events as necessary and recommending adjustments when required
Technical Support: Triages, troubleshoots, and resolves technical support issues. Escalates issues as needed.
Software Development Principles: Utilizes software development, secure programming principles, and a knowledge of programming languages to develop, configure, and/or integrate new software and applications.
Business Needs Assessment: Identifies business needs across departments within the Firm to understand the challenges, goals, and problems that the business needs to solve and identifies appropriate technical solutions.
Data Management and Information Security: Manipulates, restructures, and/or queries data for various purposes, including reconciling issues in the database, designing database structures, and/or generating reports. Adheres to governance principles and maintains data integrity and security.
Risk Management: Identifies, forecasts, and articulates ways to pursue and manage informed risks in ambiguous, complex, or uncertain situations based on sound value propositions and an analysis of potential rewards and costs.
Testing: Evaluates the functionality of an application, system, or solution to ensure that requirements have been met and defects have been identified. Applies an understanding of end-user requirements and usage in the end-to-end system to produce a quality product.
Industry Knowledge: Demonstrates an understanding of the Firm's position in the industry, including its complex structure and competitive advantage in the marketplace. Monitors industry trends and changes and recognizes their relevancy and implications.
Technical Communication and Documentation: Documents and communicates technical processes and procedures in the area of specialty to stakeholders. Adapts the level of detail and specificity based on the needs of the intended audience.
Vendor Management: Manages and coordinates with external vendors. Researches and identifies new vendors as needed and monitors performance.
Relationship Management: Builds and maintains effective partnerships with internal clients and end users by advising on their needs and options, advocating for their business within the Technology Solutions department, and managing expectations appropriately.
Project / Program Management: Manages Technology Solutions project elements considering conflicting priorities, interdependencies, business objectives, communications, and available resources.
Innovative Mindset: Leverages an agile and creative mindset to drive innovative value creation, continuous process improvement, and proactive learning through new technology, processes, and people.

Responsibilities (Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies)

Ensure standards are being followed as it relates to all scrum meetings and practices
Focus on removing impediments and providing feedback for continuous improvement
Align product delivery goals and ensure they are clear and accepted by the delivery team
Assist with backlog refinement, preparation for upcoming sprints, and aligning on objectives
Demonstrate strong agile project management.
Meet with team leaders to guide and identify scope, tasks, dependencies, timelines, and schedules
Support the tracking of impediments, risks, and issues, ensuring assignment and resolution. Foster an environment of continuous improvement and proactive communication and collaboration
Track team velocity, sprint/release progress, and delivery metrics
Participate in the development and maintenance of agile planning tools including Power BI dashboards and reports. Develop Azure DevOps dashboards for monitoring
Create and maintain metrics for the teams using data points and trends to communicate progress, quality, bottlenecks, and team health
Track and communicate team velocity and sprint / release progress to all affected teams
Incorporate findings from metrics, improvements to standards which will benefit our entire development lifecycle (sprint cycle, stand-ups, planning, demos, burn down charts, and release health)

Continuous Improvement

Understand the team's maturity and partner cross-functionally to help the team on their journey. Identify and implement coaching opportunities to reinforce our standards
Propose changes to our ADO standards pending increased maturity or as opportunities arise which help provide the best solutions for The Firm
Lead and facilitate continuous improvement efforts with the team through retrospectives and implementing effective transformations to enhance team performance and productivity

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field is required
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or similar Agile certification
Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Project Manager with at least 3 years of focused Scrum Master experience
Proficient with Agile project management tools
Strong analytical and reporting skills (Power BI) (preferred)
Enthusiastic about working in office and creating a Gold Standard hybrid work culture

We Offer

Competitive salary range: $55.00 - $75.00 per hour, depending on experience
Contract position
Opportunity to work with a reputable company

About the Company

Important Notes

All legitimate correspondence from our recruiting team will only come from an email address ending in @lrs.com. We do not use generic domains like @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, or @outlook.com.
We never conduct interviews solely via text-based chat on Microsoft Teams, Telegram, or WhatsApp. All virtual interviews involve a scheduled video or phone call with a member of our team.
LRS will never ask a candidate for payment, fees, or to purchase equipment (e.g., laptops, software) as a condition of employment.
All genuine job opportunities are listed directly on our official careers portal at Careers.

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