Scrum Master

Company: The Judge Group
Location: Deerfield
Posted on: May 26, 2023

Job Description:

Location: Riverwoods, IL Salary: TBD Description: Description What You'll Do

• Partner with others in the Agile space (Senior Scrum Masters, Agile Program Managers and Agile Coaches) to drive technology-focused teams towards achieving Agile principles. Your influence will help achieve various milestones as well as objectives
• Leverage your development skills to the highest capacity to help drive key initiatives and projects and shape our business and technology outcomes to meet customer and partner needs.
• Create and break down product/platform efforts into successful execution-ready plans.
• Contribute to the developer experience by leveraging the latest technologies in the industry to enhance current solution patterns and define new ones. How You'll Do It:
  • Scrum master for 2-3 teams
  • Facilitate team activities including daily stand-up meetings, grooming, sprint planning, demonstrations, release planning and team retrospectives.
  • Follow and promote Agile methodology and related scrum ceremonies within a cross-functional Agile team.
  • Coach the team to own and continually improve their process and practices.
  • Manage sprint release deliverables and proactively identify and resolve impediments to help the team work effectively, meet sprint objectives and ensure releases stay on track.
  • Update sprint activities in Agile planning and execution tracking tool.
  • Communicate Agile team's progress, dependencies, and impediments.
  • Participate in program increment (PI) planning events.
  • Identify, communicate and resolve dependencies between Agile teams. Qualifications You'll Need:
    • Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, or related field
    • 5+ years of experience in Agile, Scrum, or related field Bonus Points If You Have:
      • Experience working for a large, highly sophisticated organization
      • Understanding of Agile Principles
      • An Agile practice related Certification required (CSM, CSP-SM, PMI - ACP SAFe, KMP, TKP, etc.)
      • Execution Focused
      • Excellent communication (oral and written), organizational, and interpersonal skills
      • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
      • Strong ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
      • Skilled at working within a team-oriented, collaborative environment
      • Experience with Jira
      • Broad knowledge of testing principles, automation principles and supporting technologies Knowledge of different Agile frameworks (Kanban, Scrum)
      • Build in quality practices (Pair Programming)
      • Knowledge of IT infrastructure, foundational understanding of development tools and database technologies
        Contact: This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at

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