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Scrum Lead

LocationBeaverton, OR 97006 - United States
Work TypeContract/Temp
Positions1 Position
  • Agile
  • Scrum Master
  • Scrum
Category: Technology
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Title: Scrum Lead

Location: Onsite - Beaverton, OR

Duration: 1 Year Contract


WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

  • Responsible for guiding the development of an agile team into an effective delivery unit with a sustainable cadence
  • Responsible for ensuring the teams process evolves within organizational guidelines and standards of practice
  • Must be able to nurture self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring
  • Facilitate project team meetings, project road-mapping sessions, gather feedback by presenting to all levels of leadership
  • Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and processes
  • Excellent communicator, able to gain the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and management
  • Able to resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation
  • Must be willing and able to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution
  • Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, retrospectives and sprint reviews
  • Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed
  • Ensure cross-team coordination
  • Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal
  • Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and help the team see how they are doing


WHAT YOU BRING

  • Provide technical Management of Agile projects using the Scrum or Kanban framework.
  • Must be able to communicate with multiple senior leaders, maintain knowledge of multiple tracks of work and gain a technical understanding of the work that the team is executing on.
  • 5 years project/agile/scrum management experience.
  • Experience delivering large projects.
  • Experience with formal agile management methodologies.
  • Must have a Scrum Certification from the Scrum Alliance or equivalent organization.
  • Ability to Manage Multiple Squads.
  • Deep understanding of Agile and Scrum.
  • Team Leadership skills and the ability to communicate with senior leaders.