Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

**Hybrid | Merrimack, NH**

Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Scrum Master.

Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $64 - $69 / hr. w2

• As a Scrum Master you blend deep scrum expertise with a passion for mentoring and coaching, and constant improvement.
• As part of a highly collaborative squad, you will advise, mentor, coach and train on performance against agile values, practices and processes to accelerate squad value delivery.
• In partnership with the squad leader you will maintain a backlog, help to remove impediments and facilitate agile events such as the daily stand up, sprint planning, backlog refinement and retrospectives.
• You will have responsibility for release management coordination and participate in scaling events and activities as you facilitate interdependencies across squads and product areas.
• You will examine and drive team performance through metrics and find opportunities for the squad to fully realize the benefits of working in an agile structure.
• Working collaboratively with squad and chapter leaders to enable delivery of the squad's mission through well-executed sprints.
• Accelerating overall squad performance, efficiency and value delivered by engaging within and across squads to find opportunities to improve agile maturity and metrics, and providing coaching, training, and resources.
• Maintaining and visualizing squad performance metrics (e.g., burn-down charts) and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the squad members and transparency to other partners.
• Managing, coordinating logistics for and participating in agile events (e.g., backlog prioritization, sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives and as appropriate - scaled events.
• Supporting adoption, and consistent use of enabling tools (e.g., Jira, Jira Align, Miro, MS Teams).
• Participate in Scrum Master community of practice to further build better scrum behaviors in the environment.
• Support scaling activities across domain and external partners (Scrum of Scrums, Scrum of Scrum of Scrums).
• Work to embrace a culture of sustainable pace.

• 5+ years of dedicated experience as a full-time Scrum Master leading an Agile Scrum Team
• Jira experience
• You possess excellent communication and people-interaction skills and can rapidly build trust and positively influence others at all levels of the organization
• You demonstrate a continuous improvement approach
• You are a proven change agent capable of coaching agile practices to teams and individuals from across different functions, experiences and geographies as they work through new and unfamiliar situations
• You are an effective facilitator and can brainstorm with the team to generate solutions that address challenges and roadblocks to accelerating value delivery
• You are intellectually curious and passionate about learning new skills, and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching
• You are effective at negotiation and impediment removal.
• Experiences forecasting, estimating, and planning in an agile environment
• Agile at scale (preferably Scrum@Scale)

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or Scrum.inc Registered Scrum Master (RSM) certification. SAFe SSM and PMI ACP will be considered.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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