Scrum Master

Hybrid Schedule: 3 days onsite/ 2 days remote per week in Charlotte, NCWe are seeking a Lead Scrum Master (Agilist) to coach and guide Agile teams in the successful adoption and execution of Agile principles, practices, and frameworks. This individual will promote a culture of continuous improvement, servant leadership, and high performance while helping teams deliver measurable business value. The ideal candidate will be a trusted Agile mentor who can foster collaboration, remove impediments, and drive organizational agility across multiple initiatives.

Rate: $70.00 to $75.00/hr. w 2 Coach Teams: Exemplify Servant Leadership and guide teams in self-organization, cross-functionality, and Agile best practices. Guide team maturity by introducing new concepts and disciplines for value delivery. Mentor and coach Team members, promote Agile thinking/mindset, ensure adherence to the maturity of defined process. Continuous Improvement: Encourage a culture of continuous improvement by identifying areas for process enhancement and implementing solutions. Conduct team maturity assessments and maintain continuous improvement roadmap. Support Product Owners: Partner with the Product Owner to lead the team. Maintains the product backlog in partnership with the Product Owner and Team ensuring clear communication of product goals and a prioritized product roadmap. Promote Agile Practices: Educate teams and stakeholders on Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban and any other methodology or Agile scaling framework that the team might use. Ensure the Team is fully functional and productive, shielding them from external distractions. Ensure artifact quality. Facilitate Agile Events: Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, product backlog refinement, sprint reviews/demos, big room planning (or Product Increment planning) and retrospectives. Data-Driven Decisions: Provide metrics to support data-driven decision making to deliver value. Analyze the team’s performance metrics, such as burndown charts and velocity, and identify improvement areas. Impediment, Risk and Dependency Management: Proactively identifies and manages impediments, risks and dependencies until resolution. Stakeholder Management: Facilitate communication between the team and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency.

Required Qualifications: Graduation from a four -year college or university or 7 years of experience in lieu of a degree.5+ years of experience with product and project concepts, as well as practices. Work experience in addition to degree: 3+ years of Scrum Master experience. Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I or equivalent)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. W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality. Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact Info Sec@eliassen.com