Job Title: Scrum Master (Hybrid)

Location: Indianapolis, IN

Duration: 6+ Months

Job Type: Corp-Corp / 1099 / Contract W2

Client: State of Indiana

Interview Type: Webcam

Note: Candidate MUST be Local to Indiana

Candidates that have experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Java developer will be considered first.

Job Description:

This position will be responsible for supporting Agile Teams during the planning, developing, testing, and release of value to our customers by employing agile practices and lean principals within a scaled agile framework.

The essential functions of this role are as follows:

· Provide agile and lean coaching to Agile Team and other professionals in ITS with the intent of building a generative culture.

· Help Agile Teams implement changes in approach processes, policies, and procedures.

· Mitigate blockers that prohibit development or testing during increments by engaging the correct resource(s) that can resolve blockers.

· Provide independent voice during planning and refinement to ensure that Agile Team understands work as defined by customer’s acceptance criteria.

· Ensure that Agile Teams and customer stay within scope as defined in acceptance criteria during increments.

· Ensure that requests for changes in work during increment are discussed during problem-solving workshop with customer and ITS and the impact to development and testing during the increment is minimized.

· Lead daily stand-up meetings and other meetings, such as an Inspect & Adapt meeting.

· Ensuring ITS processes, policies, and procedures are followed.

· Work with business stakeholders to drive decision making and timely responses to development and testing questions during the increments.

· Monitor progress of Agile Teams and ensure that retrospective feedback is presented to management and adopted by Agile Teams.

· Ensure that planned cross-domain work is visible to product owners and product management.

· Ensure that dependencies and enablers that block prioritized work is delivered to architecture team.

· Provide weekly status updates for product management and architecture team on the state of development and testing during the increment.

· Continue to enrich understand of agile practices and lean principals through workshops, other learning sources, and certifications.

· Report and escalate issues that are not getting mitigated to product management

· Performs other job-related duties as assigned

· The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

· You're an ideal candidate if you have a BS in Business or an Information Technology degree and/or 5+ years of applicable experience in IT or as a Scrum Master. Experience as a java developer or in quality assurance preferred. Scrum Master certification(s) are highly desirable.

What You'll Need For Success:

· Intrinsic motivation

· Sound understanding of how to prioritize your work

· Flexibility in working with professionals from diverse backgrounds and experience levels

· Familiar with software development

· Basic understanding of agile development tools, such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, and others

· Ability to handle routine and sensitive contacts with governmental officials, consulting firms, contractors, developers, and business users

· Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.

· Good interpersonal and communication skills suitable for a wide variety of contacts

· Confidence and ability to learn on the job and adapt quickly to changing circumstances

Skill Matrix

Skill

Required /Desired

Amount

of Experience

Experience working as a Scrum Master

Required

5

Years

Experience in facilitating multiple Agile Teams (preferably in SAFe environment)

Required

5

Years

Experience in Agile Team Coaching (preferably in SAFe environment)

Required

5

Years

Prior experience working in a Product Ownership role

Required

2

Years

Experience in Tracking and reporting

Required

5

Years

Experience with DevOps Workflow Management using Jira

Required

2

Years

Experience with DevOps Workflow Management using Azure DevOps

Required

2

Years

Experience in Process Engineering

Required

5

Years

Experience in Software Quality Assurance (SQA) testing

Required

2

Years

Professional experience in Interpersonal, business communications

Required

5

Years

Java development experience

Highly desired

2

Years

.Net experience

Highly desired

0

Scrum Master Certification

Highly desired

0

Recruiter Details:

Recruiter Name: Gouthami

Contact Number: 281-769-1264

About GSK Solutions Inc:

GSK Solutions Inc is a leading information technology (IT) Services Company that specializes in providing complete consulting solutions and staff augmentation to its clients. We provide on-time, on-budget, and quality service to our clients and consistently meet their expectations. We are known for our superior execution on a sustained basis.

GSK has been in the business of providing both commercial and custom product development services, including, Information Security, Software Development, Consulting and IT Audit. GSK implements highly critical and time-sensitive projects for their Fortune 500 clients located across the country.

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $43.00 - $47.00 per hour

Experience level:

• 5 years
• 6 years
• 7 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: One location

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