Senior Scrum Master

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Senior Scrum Master for a contract assignment with one of our premier Investment Banking clients in Arlington, VA.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as Scrum Master leading Agile teams focusing on projects for Debit Card and Checks squad.
• Promote Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development and testing organizations.
• Create a collaborative team environment; partner with Agile Coach to provide constructive feedback for continuous agile improvement.
• Develop team norms and balance workload for onshore and offshore developers, testers and Product Owners.
• Plan and conduct Agile meetings/ceremonies (e.g., Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand Up, Test Plan and Test Case reviews, Sprint Demos, Retrospectives, etc.).
• Review and manage backlog and in-progress items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate.
• Maintain team metrics and report project statuses (e.g., velocity/burn down charts, financial status, issues/risks, etc.) on a regular basis to Product Owner and to senior stakeholders.
• Take ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through Scrum-of-Scrums ceremony.
• Takes a lead role in overall release management, which includes end-to-end regression test coordination, ensuring SDLC artifact adherence, runbook coordination, and deployment support.
• Oversee Production issues, partner with Product Owner on impact assessment and prioritization of production issues.

Required Skills:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.
• 10+ years of overall experience.
• 5+ years of investment banking experience.
• 7+ years hands-on experience in a large complex banking organization or major consulting organization acting as a Scrum Master utilizing Agile Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Agile project management software/tools (e.g., JIRA, etc.).
• Proven relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications.
• 4+ Years developing full-scale project plans and associated communication documents, including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path.
• Experience estimating resources needed to achieve project goals.
• Hands on-experience proactively managing change in project scope, identifying potential issues, and devising contingency plans.
• Proficient with MS Office applications: Excel, MS Project, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint.

Preferred Skills:

• Technical background in integration, development, testing, and/or infrastructure is nice to have.

SGA is a Certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) celebrating over thirty years of service to our national client base for both permanent placement and consulting opportunities. For consulting positions, we offer a variety of benefit options including but not limited to health & dental insurance, paid vacation, timely payment via direct deposit. SGA accepts transfers of H1 sponsorship for most contracting roles. We are unable to sponsor for Right-to-Hire, Fulltime, or Government roles. All parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply for all roles. Only those authorized to work for government entities will be considered for government roles. Please inquire about our referral program if you would like to submit a candidate for any of our open or future job opportunities. SGA is an EEO employer. We encourage Veterans to apply. To view all of our available job postings and/or to learn more about SGA please visit us online at www.sgainc.com . •

Last updated on Nov 10, 2023