Scrum Master

Scrum Master

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Scrum Master | Spokane, WA
This is a long-term, multi-year contract position in Spokane, WA with excellent contract benefits (PTO, sick leave, paid holidays, health and welfare contribution, 401k).

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Job Summary:
The Scrum Master is a ‘servant-leader’ for the Scrum team and assumes the responsibility of ensuring Scrum is understood and performed by leading the team to adhere to the theories, practices, and rules of Scrum. Utilizing Scrum master tools and principles, this role facilitates Agile information technology project cycles to
empower the team to task completion and backlog burndown.
Responsibilities:

• Strongly serve and support the Product Owner and development team to attain the goals and objectives for the customer
• Provide servant leadership to teams by employing active listening, empathy, awareness, foresight, stewardship, growth, community building, and nurturing principles
• Assess, guide and coach the Scrum team and organization on applicable use of Agile/Scrum practices and values
• Develop, influence and apply sustainable model for improving Scrum maturity
• Guide and empower the team to overcome obstacles by facilitating: discovery and problem resolution, learning others’ abilities, and cross training on others’ job title and team role.
• Build a trustworthy and safe environment that encourages surfacing problems without fear of blame, retribution, or judgment and emphasizes problem resolution
• Facilitate work completion without influence, coercion, assignment, or dictation of the work
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution within and across teams
• Assisting with internal and external communication
• Support the Product Owner with respect to refining, grooming and managing the product backlog

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• First level Scrum Master certification (PSM I, CSM)
• 3-5 years of Agile development experience
• An understanding of Software Development Lifecycle education and/or Project Management Lifecycle
• Desired experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Word) and Agile tools (VersionOne, Jira, Rally, TFS)
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Knowledge of numerous well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach
  (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
• The ability to distinguish between "Scrum" what is not “Scrum"
• Experience with offshore/offsite teams is desired

Please note the following:

• This is a W2 position.
• Direct inquiries only.
• No 3rd party submittals please.
• This position is not available for Corp-to-Corp.
• This position is not available for Associate Vendors.

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Our Recruiter will initiate a phone call to you and give you immediate consideration should your resume meet the job requirements. Please rest assured that if your resume matches what is reflected in this job posting, you should receive a phone call from a Volt Recruiter to discuss this position with you. Volt has a talented and optimistic staffing team focused on the quality of your career.

Volt has over 60 years of staffing experience. We work with many of the Fortune 500 and 1000 companies to provide workforce solutions. We offer many direct hire full-time positions as well as many contingent/temporary positions. We offer our Workers competitive pay and benefits, as well as educational programs and re-deployment assistance.

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Volt is an Equal Opportunity Employer.