Scrum Master

Randstad is partnering with a financial services to find a contract Scrum Master. They are looking for someone who has experience within asset management and investment operations. This role requires working onsite 3 days/week.

Responsibilities:

-Practice and encourage Agile mindset and behaviors; coach, inspire and mentor teams on Agile principles, values, and practices while role modeling the company’s leadership behaviors.

Independently lead the application of Agile practices (Scrum or Kanban) for multiple teams. Examples such as visualizing work, limiting work in progress, managing workflow, planning and guidance for daily stand ups, sprint planning, short, mid, and long-range planning, backlog refinement, and retrospective meetings.

-Enable progress toward objectives, KPIs and commitments; guide assigned Agile teams in delivering the required product increments and outcomes.

-Identify opportunities to improve team-level Agile performance; focus teams on customer value, quality, and continuous improvement activities.

-Remove team-level impediments and resolve conflicts; anticipate challenges, identify risks, and recommend mitigations and solutions.

-Utilize learnings and best practices in furthering the effective use of Agile practices

-Facilitate open communication among team members and stakeholders; promote positive team dynamics to ensure members collaborate and work effectively.

-Build and leverage effective alliances across other teams and the technical and business communities.

-Partner with leadership on scaled planning activities, organizing, and leading scale ceremonies.

-Participate and actively contribute to the Agile Community

-Increase the overall Agile maturity for teams and support higher complexity work towards successful outcomes.

-Supports Agile team(s) that have various levels of agile maturity; actively works to upskill those teams in agile practices and increases their overall agile maturity