Scrum Master

| Location: Off-Site | Contract

A Scrum Master role focused on guiding agile teams within a large enterprise environment. This position involves facilitating agile ceremonies, fostering collaboration, and driving continuous improvement to ensure the successful delivery of business value. The role emphasizes connecting product leadership with development teams and promoting an agile mindset across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and organize cross-functional teams to facilitate the successful delivery of business value within an agile framework.
• Coordinate and facilitate Agile ceremonies such as PI Planning, iteration planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, demos, and retrospectives.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure ceremonies and meetings are purposeful, efficient, and well-organized, supporting healthy backlog management.
• Identify and address barriers to team achievement with a sense of urgency, employing techniques to foster innovation and collaboration.
• Build consensus-based decision-making processes within the team, ensuring all voices are heard.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to develop and maintain release and iteration roadmaps, supporting short- and long-term release planning.
• Maintain a healthy, safe, and productive team environment that promotes continuous learning and relentless improvement.
• Champion a continuous improvement mindset, using data-driven insights to evaluate and enhance team performance.
• Act as a change agent to promote agile adoption across the organization through structured approaches.
• Ensure visibility and effective communication using ceremonies and tools that facilitate rapid responses to impediments.
• Connect the team with stakeholders to ensure they have everything needed for effective planning and execution.
• Apply risk management discipline in decision-making and team activities to mitigate potential issues.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Agile methodology experience in a large enterprise environment.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe Scrum Master certification.
• Experience with SAFe frameworks, including SAFe PO/PM.
• Working knowledge of Product Management, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, and Continuous Delivery.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to present information confidently and influence stakeholders.
• Demonstrable mastery in mentoring, facilitation, and coaching within agile teams.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote environment.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, and Value Stream Mapping.
• Knowledge of department/business lines, Reserve Banks, or System operations, policies, procedures, and technologies.
• Creativity and attention to detail in compliance and process improvement.
• Proven ability to support team growth and development through coaching and mentoring.
  
  

About Delphi-US - Peacemakers In The Talent War

Delphi-US is a national IT Services firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. Delphi attracts our nation's best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and positions our nation's finest employers to further their competitive advantages. Delphi's core technical focus includes Data Intelligence Engineering & Analytics, AI/ML Operational Excellence, DevOps & Cloud Computing, Health IT & Life Sciences, and Energy Management/Power Systems; serving domains from sensitive national energy sectors to critical financial services, biomed, life sciences & pharma, major government & municipal institutions, and much of the USA's Fortune 500 corporations. Delphi Associates are deployed on critical IT Projects where their consultative business acumen, comprehensive technical expertise, and committed service mission drives our client's success. Our proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process results in higher qualified project teams, custom curated for our client's specific technical & functional goals. We are supremely experienced, friendly, professional, and ready to advocate on your behalf. Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations, a track record of project success and we deliver lasting results.

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