Scrum Master Senior Advisor

PM in an Agile environment 100% REMOTE Our direct client is looking for an experienced and talented Scrum Master to join the US Medical Integration Solution team. This team is involved with highly-visible portfolio initiatives and is pivotal to the success of applications for our business partners and customers. An ideal candidate will be highly skilled in Lean-Agile and SAFe principles and concepts to successfully operate in a fast pace organization. They will seek out opportunities, take on new and exciting challenges, and leave a mark on the team though their expertise, coaching and contributions. Our people make all the difference in our success. Key Responsibilities:

• PM for one or more distributed agile teams
• Support the team through servant leadership, leading by example
• Establish, support and facilitate team level cadence and ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand up, retrospectives, backlog refinement, etc.
• Support the team in establishing realistic and achievable delivery commitments while operating at a sustainable pace
• Facilitate / support management of dependencies to ensure alignment of delivery
• Remove impediments and escalate in a timely manner as necessary
• Remove barriers between stakeholders and scrum teams
• Provide coaching and guidance to the team to support adoption of agile values, principles and practices
• Support Product Owner with maintaining and refining product backlog
• Support Product Owner with prioritization and forecasting of roadmap based on team velocity and stakeholder requests
• Support Product Owner and stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed
• Protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work
• Co-ordinate scrum team s releases to Production and support communication to Stakeholders
• Act as a change agent and help to build and support a learning environment for continual growth
• Maintain metrics and data necessary to provide visibility on progress, quality and value to stakeholders
• Participate in and contribute to internal agile communities of practices and/or Scrum Master Forums

• Passionate about continually learning new tools and techniques to support the team and encourages others to do so as well
• Proactive, with the ability to adjust or flex approach based upon the situation at hand
• Ability to earn the team s respect and lead by example
• Ability to promote and educate Lean-Agile and SAFe concepts and principles at the team level
• Ability to partner and build relationships across the organization to collaboratively achieve goals
• Ability to facilitate and support discussion and conflict resolution at the team level
• Ability to promote a safe environment for constructive dialogue to encourage continual growth and improvement
• Ability to communicate effectively and concisely with their team, Product Owners, other Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, Stakeholders and Management
• Ability to guide a team with diverse personalities and approaches toward becoming self-organizing and self-managing

• 3+ years of experience as a PM on an Agile team
• 5-7 years of experience in IT.
• Outstanding ability to facilitate and proactively organize meetings
• Excellent problem-solving and strategic thinking skills
• Technically savvy and able to get to detail levels and drive the project(s)
• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization, converting complex challenges into simplified options and recommendations
• Ability to navigate a fast paced, highly matrixed organization effectively in order to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives

• Industry certifications such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), or SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Experience with Jira
• Healthcare experience
• Experience promoting agile engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous delivery, TDD, etc.
• Experience acting as a Scrum Master for multiple distributed teams.
• Experience leading agile adoption at the team level