The Midtown Group
Intermediate Scrum Master
The Midtown Group, Washington, District of Columbia, us, 20022
Job Description
Job Description
One of our federal clients is looking for an accomplished intermediate scrum master to join their office and lead on the development of an internal research and analytics platform. This individual would be responsible for using the Scaled Agile Framework to facilitate this project.
This role will be 100% remote and last through at least the end of 2025!
Duties:
Responsible for facilitating scrum events such as PI/sprint planning, daily scrum, PI/sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
Help the project team remove obstacles/blockers that are stopping development or deployment process by facilitating the communication with external teams if needed or report any critical issues.
Perform any necessary coaching to the team, improve the communication and collaboration within the team and stakeholders.
Work closely with the product owners to scope and plan current and future work.
Provide the product owner support in managing the backlog and provide clear communications to the product owner the status of the work items.
Provide the project manager support in providing necessary monthly status updates, which could include creating reports or dashboards.
Responsible for maintaining the Azure DevOps for the project.
Design, develop, author, and maintain high quality operational support documents based upon functional needs associated with cloud infrastructure requirements, eliciting the materials in a collaborative effort with technical analysts, managers and project team members.
Requirements:
Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe) and SAFe certification
Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
Able to plan and problem solve with product management and delivery teams
Minimum of 7 years of experience in leading projects or key business initiatives
_ The Midtown Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran._
_ We are a small, woman-owned business certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Operating from our headquarters in Washington, DC, we provide trusted staffing services nationwide. Our clients include thousands of the most prestigious Fortune 500 companies, law firms, financial organizations, tech innovators, non-profits, and lobbying firms, as well as federal, state and local government agencies._
One of our federal clients is looking for an accomplished intermediate scrum master to join their office and lead on the development of an internal research and analytics platform. This individual would be responsible for using the Scaled Agile Framework to facilitate this project.
This role will be 100% remote and last through at least the end of 2025!
Duties:
Responsible for facilitating scrum events such as PI/sprint planning, daily scrum, PI/sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
Help the project team remove obstacles/blockers that are stopping development or deployment process by facilitating the communication with external teams if needed or report any critical issues.
Perform any necessary coaching to the team, improve the communication and collaboration within the team and stakeholders.
Work closely with the product owners to scope and plan current and future work.
Provide the product owner support in managing the backlog and provide clear communications to the product owner the status of the work items.
Provide the project manager support in providing necessary monthly status updates, which could include creating reports or dashboards.
Responsible for maintaining the Azure DevOps for the project.
Design, develop, author, and maintain high quality operational support documents based upon functional needs associated with cloud infrastructure requirements, eliciting the materials in a collaborative effort with technical analysts, managers and project team members.
Requirements:
Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe) and SAFe certification
Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
Able to plan and problem solve with product management and delivery teams
Minimum of 7 years of experience in leading projects or key business initiatives
_ The Midtown Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran._
_ We are a small, woman-owned business certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Operating from our headquarters in Washington, DC, we provide trusted staffing services nationwide. Our clients include thousands of the most prestigious Fortune 500 companies, law firms, financial organizations, tech innovators, non-profits, and lobbying firms, as well as federal, state and local government agencies._