Ampcus Inc Hiring for Scrum Master with Healthcare – Contract – W Only (No CC) – Remote at Bloomfield, CT Full Time

Duties

• Serves as the “servant leader” of the Scrum team by removing impediments and helping the team remain successful and on schedule. Must have a sufficient understanding of technology to enable them to lead team members and help them overcome their development roadblocks; they must also understand business strategy and objectives, and be able to ensure that development work is prioritized by business value and results align with objectives. The incumbent provides counsel and advice to top management on significant matters, often requiring coordination between organizations. Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines. Recognized internally as “the go-to person” for the most complex assignments.

Skills

Desired Traits:

• 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 agile / Scrum 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 team members, program team members, and stakeholders.
• Ability to guide a team with diverse personalities and approaches toward becoming self-organizing and self-managing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a Scrum Master 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.
• Provide coaching and guidance to the team to support adoption of agile values, principles and practices.
• Provide coaching and support to Product Owner in maintaining and refining product backlog.
• Support Product Owner in prioritization and forecasting of roadmap based on team velocity and stakeholder requests.
• Support the team in establishing realistic and achievable delivery commitments while operating at a sustainable pace.
• Act as an accountability partner to support the team in predictably delivering upon their commitments.
• Remove impediments and escalate in a timely manner as necessary.
• Facilitate / support management of dependencies to ensure alignment of delivery.
• Facilitate, encourage and support cross-team coordination and collaboration.
• 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.

Education: Required Experience / Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master on a Scrum team.
• 5-7 years of experience in IT.

Desired Experience / Qualifications

• 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.

For more information please contact Tom Mazzulla at tmazzulla@itechsolutions.com Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.