Agile Scrum Master

$145,600 - $156,000/Yr

BCforward - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Jersey City, NJ

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Agile Scrum Master will be responsible for facilitating Agile practices within the team, ensuring effective communication and collaboration among team members, and managing the Scrum process. This role involves using tools like Jira for tracking progress, organizing scrum ceremonies, and coordinating production releases. The Scrum Master will also play a key role in maintaining productive relationships between developers and product owners, while ensuring adherence to enterprise mandates and timely issue resolution.

Responsibilities

• Use Jira to track time spent on various categories of activity.
• Conduct planning discussions on a quarterly basis using past statistics.
• Keep track of enterprise mandates for applications and coordinate them with developers and other groups.
• Organize and manage level 3 production support, ensuring timely handling of issues according to priority.
• Run scrum ceremonies, track attendance, and maintain notes and action items in a wiki.
• Organize production releases, keeping track of dates, tickets, and signoffs, and communicate deadlines.

Requirements

• Proficient with Jira boards, plans, and reporting.
• Proficient with Agile/Scrum methodology and ceremonies.
• Proficient with MS Excel, including pivot tables and charts.
• Good communication skills, able to engage with developers and product owners effectively.
• Good motivation skills to maintain productive relationships between team members.
• Some technical experience or education is required.
• 7-10 years of experience operating as a Scrum Master.
• Financial experience is a plus.

Benefits

• Major medical insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employer-provided group life insurance
• Voluntary life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• 401k