Agilist

Title: Agilist
Industry: Banking
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Duration: 4+ months
Rate Range: $58-$64/hr
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

TOP REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 5 years Scrum Master experience working with two or more teams.
•  Facilitate Scrum Team events
• Sprint Planning / Sprint Reviews / Sprint Retros / Backlog Refinement / Daily Scrum
•  Hands-on experience with Agile tracking tools such as Jira or Rally
• Hands-on experience driving delivery including managing dependencies and risk

POSITION OVERVIEW:

• Serve as Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams, guiding them on Agile/Scrum practices and values.
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
• Coach team members, Product Managers , and stakeholders on Agile best practices and principles.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to ensure a well-refined and prioritized backlog.
• Track and communicate team metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown charts) to stakeholders.
•  Promote transparency, inspection, and adaptation within the team and across the organization.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The organization is on an agile, product and digital transformation journey and as an Agilist, you will be guiding multiple agile teams through their journey and help drive agile transformation across products and lines of business. As an Agilist, you will act as a leader and on-team coach for multiple scrum teams. We have multiple opportunities open at various levels based on experience. We are looking for a dynamic, collaborative personality that can champion the cause of the agile movement within the organization. You are passionate about leading change, helping shift mindset and influence culture change. Fostering new ways of thinking, new ways of working and building new capabilities that will help unlock new possibilities U.S. Bank. You possess strategic vision and tactical mastery and combine it with an entrepreneurial spirit to get it done. You will play a fundamental role in achieving our ambitious objectives and work closely with partners across product teams to design innovative solutions and balance challenging priorities and demands. You are laser-focused on operational excellence and customer satisfaction, and you'll need to wear many hats, so flexibility and a can-do attitude are critical!

Primary Responsibility:

•  Embrace the agile mindset, advocate and champion agile across the Technology organization by challenging, coaching, and guiding teams using agile principles.
•  Provide creative solutions to agile transformation issues: resistance to change, limited resources, conflicting priorities, lack of accountability.
• Ability to utilize agile methods in a flexible manner that often includes traditional project management which can include hard deadlines/fixed dates at times.
•  Understand the various agile frameworks, events and artifacts (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), where they are fit for purpose and how to implement/apply with new and existing teams.
• Manage and facilitate team ceremonies including quarterly product planning, product owner syncs, backlog refinement, estimating and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning, standups and retrospectives.
•  Facilitate and coach to draft, track progress and continuously improve on Objective and Key Results (OKRs).
• Coach teams and leaders in agile principles and practices, roles and responsibilities, and frameworks.
• Foster a continuous improvement environment to build high-performing, agile teams.
• Track and report on metrics for teams to measure progress, effectiveness of agile adoption, and agile maturity of the teams.
• Guide product management teams in their role, defining MVP's, developing product charters, product community maps, product roadmaps and release plans, story mapping, writing stories and backlog prioritization and management.
•  Train and mentor other Agilists on the role of the Agilist and participate in communities of practice for Agilists to share, learn and grow.
  

Basic Qualifications:

•  Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Five or more years of experience in Agile technology delivery
• Five or more years of experience in Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) teams
  

Our benefits package includes:

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• ...and much more!

About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities