Scrum Master - Mid Level - Fully Remote Contract!

Talentburst - Marlborough, MA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Marlborough, MA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Scrum Master will lead and manage a scrum team within the Loss Prevention Global Solution Delivery Team, focusing on delivering technology solutions that enhance safety and preserve company assets. This role involves collaboration with technical leads, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and ensuring adherence to SAFe/Agile practices while driving iteration commitments and delivering business value.

Responsibilities

• Lead/Manage the scrum team
• Collaborate with technical leads to plan the team's work
• Drive Loss Prevention Epics/Features and initiatives
• Act as an escalation point for delivery issues
• Support team impediment removal and dependency tracking
• Facilitate Agile team ceremonies such as daily standups and retrospectives
• Ensure team agreements are in place and coach adherence to SAFe/Agile practices
• Drive iteration commitments and plan for delivering business value
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters across the LP/Back of Stores ARTs
• Coordinate with other teams as necessary
• Partner with the technical lead to refine, prioritize, and schedule product backlog items
• Support estimating activities within the team
• Facilitate capacity planning
• Review metrics to measure team progress
• Identify areas for improvement
• Validate time tracking
• Track team objectives using Agile tools/applications
• Protect the team from external interference
• Support the Global Stores ARTs in their readiness/preparations
• Provide Flow Board Management if supporting a Kanban team
• Support 1 or 2 teams as needed
• Manage moderately complex work through the teams
• Influence work and process outside of the ART as needed

Requirements

• 5+ years as a Scrum Master/Project Manager/Program Manager with agile teams using scrum/SAFe
• Experience leading and developing people
• Proactive and 'can do' attitude to support releases
• Strong project management skills to drive and coordinate with cross-functional teams
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work with JIRA, Confluence, Mural, Service Now, and PowerBI
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and support extended hours if needed
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify deployment issues
• Agile Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)