SCRUM Master

Scrum Master Team: EMOST | Industry: Financial Assignment Details Location: Onsite, Austin, TX — 4 days/week Duration: 3-month contract with possible extensions Pay: W2 only (C2C & sponsorship are unavailable) Your Opportunity The EMOST team is looking for an experienced Scrum Master who can lead multiple scrum teams at the same time. Ideal candidates must thrive in a fast-paced team environment and have a strong passion for technology and innovation. As a Scrum Master, you will work within a scrum team to enhance messaging applications and support business-critical internal integration projects. What You're Good At Execute on Scrum Master responsibilities: organizing and facilitating daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other meetings Influence team members to leverage, follow, and support agile software development practices Interface with the product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA, and Technology Operations to ensure high-quality delivery of software projects on time and on budget Track internal and external project dependencies Identify gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans Track and communicate team velocity, sprint/release progress, and maintain process documentation Provide accurate and succinct updates and escalations (with business impacts) Serve and support the team by removing impediments and partnering with Senior Managers and Project Managers Assist teams with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; identify and remove impediments; prevent distractions that interfere with sprint goal delivery; facilitate discussion and conflict resolution Empower teams to self-organize; improve sprint team productivity; ensure each increment of functionality is potentially releasable Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally Ensure coordination of individual team deliverables is synchronized as needed to achieve product releases What You Have Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years of Scrum Master experience (required) Rally experience is a plus Experience using the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) and maintaining Scrum Boards, including feature breakdown to Epics, User Stories, Tasks, and Subtasks Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate Experience working with agile methodology on large-scale, technically complex projects Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle Highly adaptable to changing environments Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential Self-motivated, creative, and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems Collaborative in driving decisions; able to manage multiple projects and deadlines Ability to hold team members accountable, set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, and keep the team engaged and on task Experience working in the financial industry and awareness of basic financial concepts Experience taking business requirements and writing technical requirements using BDD Excellent written and verbal communication and influencing skills Self-starter, organized, able to work across multiple projects and handle multiple scrum teams simultaneously