SCRUM Master

Are you a Scrum Master looking to join one of the top companies in the Banking Industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have Scrum Master experience?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions seeks highly qualified candidates to work ON-SITE with our client in Lafayette, NY. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• Provides servant-leadership and mentorship to one cross-functional agile team through practical application of Agile principles and frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP).
• Strengthens understanding of effective practices, theories, and techniques to support continuous improvement.
• Educates and coaches the team to create an environment that fosters self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Visualizes, communicates, and radiates team information to keep their work and impediments visible to stakeholders.
• Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices, including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, and information radiators, to help create high-performing teams.
• Encourage continuous improvement among team members, constantly discovering better working methods through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives.
• Facilitate meetings with the team for idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving, and alignment.
• Help the team gain transparency into their workflow through the appropriate use of information radiators.
• Address blocking issues beyond the team's authority or requiring support from other teams, so the team remains focused on achieving its goals.
• Work with other Agile leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization.
• Seek and host a variety of individual learning opportunities such as communities of practice, conferences, meetups, reading, and classroom training.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls by the Company's Risk Appetite.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Design, implement, maintain, and enhance internal controls to continuously mitigate risk.
• Identify risk-related issues that need to be escalated to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client brand.
• Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points, and any issues raised by external regulators, as applicable.
• While not having direct management responsibility, the position manages activities through influence, accountability, and ownership, functioning in an agile environment.

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $34.61 - $57.68 / hr.

Hours: 40 hrs/Week.

Length: Contract (6 months).

Sound like a good fit?

APPLY TODAY

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Minimum 1 year of Scrum Master experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience as a member of an agile team.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Prior experience fostering team self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices.
• Experience developing/managing digital capabilities.
• Understanding of Design Thinking principles.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good Agile and Scrum knowledge.
• Good communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.