Scrum Master - Remote to start

Scrum Master - Remote to start Location : Pittsburgh, PA Duration : 6 Months (Contract-to-hire) Rate : DOE Start Date : ASAP US citizen, Green card, GC EAD, TN Visa and H4 EAD accepted

Job Description

• Serve as Scrum Master for one or more teams, and/or manage one or more agile projects.
• Manages dependencies and drives alignment across product/technology teams and stakeholders
• Manages dependencies and defines work plans and action plans to help minimize or mitigate dependencies across the product teams and business teams.
• Integrated planning and roadmap alignment across product teams and business teams.
• Provides a central point for communication and escalation across product teams and business teams.
• Ensures resource alignment within and across product teams.
• Provide coaching for Product team on applying agile and scrum-based techniques
• Remove impediments for teams and shields teams from external interruptions
• Management and/or administrative support of Epics/Features, backlog and requirements and/or scope within product teams or across projects
• Build schedules / plans (iterations, release plans, outcome roadmaps, activity & milestone plans
• Track and report on progress (velocity and burndown, activity/milestone tracking, progress reporting)
• Facilitate ceremonies and manage the overall delivery process (iteration planning meetings, standups, recurring team meetings, retros, demos)
• Issue tracking and action planning / ownership
• Coordination, planning & alignment with teams/stakeholders; dependency tracking
• Resource planning and coordination; capacity planning and tracking
• Vendor management, planning and coordination; contracting
• Manage Change (change management, communications, storytelling, backlog grooming support, scope change)
• Provide coaching/mentoring and training to build competencies across key technology and stakeholder groups
• Drives Process Improvement efforts across product and business teams
• Help the Scrum Team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity

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