Scrum Master

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Required Skills/Experience:

This role will support the Client and must have experience in the following areas:

A team builder who can effectively lead a team, build relationships, and ensure a detailed plan is being followed.

Ability to manage to a budget, includes forecasting and providing variance explanations.

Ability to quickly get up to speed on new business concepts and have enough technical experience to be able to understand and keep up with what the team is discussing during requirements and design sessions.

Executive presence and effective communication

Must be able to clearly articulate project updates to stakeholders and members of the senior leadership team

Must possess a strong presence with confidence and polish

Excellent planning and coordination skills

Waterfall and Agile Methodology

Must have strong experience running waterfall, agile and hybrid projects, aligning processes, deliverables, and project metrics/dashboards/reports as needed

Experience with various dependent projects potentially being executed with different methodologies

Vendor Management

Experience with Vendor contracts management

Experience with and Vendor package implementations

Strong experience in managing internal, external and hybrid teams

Technical

Prior experience managing technology roadmap projects

General knowledge and understanding of the technology field and technology projects

Understanding of core infrastructure

Understanding of Cloud Development (preferable Azure)

Prefer Fundamental Understanding of Data Manipulation/Governance

Key Responsibilities:

Manage projects that involve multiple vendors and complex integrations

Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables

Develop and track full scale project plans including external integration points and dependencies

Establish and coordinate project teams

Guides and coaches the team on how to use the Agile framework

Resolves team's impediments

Manages the scrum board

Maintains project financial sand status reporting

Help team implement changes effectively

Ensures deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint

Direct and oversee the project team

Define project tasks and manage project resource allocation

Manage project budgets

Identify project risks and issues and develop and execute mitigation plans

Manage project changes to achieve project goals

Monitor and report project status to all stakeholders

Provide guidance and direction to external vendors as applicable

Participate in quality audits

Develop Requests for Information/ Proposals (RFI/RFP) for external services as applicable

Demonstrate leadership, and strong organizational, presentation and communication skills

Job Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or higher required

Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certifications required

Minimum 5 years of Scrum Master/ Project Management experience

Experience with vendor management and vendor package implementations

Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project

Experience with Microsoft Project Server, ServiceNow, and Azure DevOps a plus

Strong technical background a plus

Certification or a degree in computer science, information systems or engineering would be a plus

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