SCRUM Master

Are you a Scrum Master who is looking to join one of the top companies within the Banking Industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have experience as a Scrum Master?

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

Acara Solutions is seeking highly qualified candidates to work ON-SITE with our client in Buffalo, NY. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• Provides servant-leadership and mentorship to multiple cross-functional agile teams through practical 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 teams 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, and information radiators, to help create high-performing teams.
• Encourage a culture of continuous improvement for individuals within the agile teams, constantly discovering better ways of working through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives.
• Curate team-level coaching content used to guide teams regarding agile practices.
• Facilitate meetings with the teams for idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving, and alignment.
• Help the teams gain transparency into their workflow through appropriate use of information radiators.
• Address blocking issues beyond the teams' authority or need support from other teams so they remain focused on achieving their goals.
• Work with other Agile Leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization.
• Provide mentorship to less experienced Scrum Masters.
• Seek and host a variety of individual and team 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 by its Risk Appetite.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Design, implement, maintain, and enhance internal controls to continuously mitigate risk.
• Identify risk-related issues that need to be escalated to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client brand.
• Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points and any issues external regulators raise, as applicable.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.
• While not having direct management responsibility, the position manages activities through influence, accountability, and ownership, functioning in an agile environment.

Here's what you'll get:

Starting Pay: $50 / hr.

Hours: 40 hrs/Week.

Length: Contract (6 Months).

Sound like a good fit?

APPLY TODAY

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Minimum of 4 years experience as a member of an agile team.
• Minimum of 2 years experience as a Scrum Master.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Depth of Knowledge of at least two technology team roles (project manager, user experience, business analyst, developer, testing, deployment).
• Banking industry experience
• Experience fostering team self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices.
• Jira
• Power BI
• Experience in a Scale Agile environment
• Experience developing/managing digital capabilities.
• Understanding of Design Thinking principles.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience leading through influence.

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.