SCRUM Master

Are you a Scrum Master 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 Onsite 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 that are beyond the teams' authority or require support from other teams so the teams 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 in accordance with its 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 Bank brand.
• Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points and 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: $68.19 / hr.

Hours: 40 hrs/Week

Length: Temp (12 Months)

Sound like a good fit?

APPLY TODAY

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier provider of recruiting and workforce solutions-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in a variety of industries around the world, 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 2 years experience as a Scrum Master
• Minimum of 4 years experience as a member of an agile team.

• Bachelor's Degree
• Depth of Knowledge of at least two technology team roles (project manager, user experience, business analyst, developer, testing, deployment).
• 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.
• Experience leading through influence.
• Agile Framework / Scrum Fundamentals
• Project Management and organizational skills

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.