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Scrum Master

Contract: Buffalo, New York, US

Salary Range: 60.00 - 65.00 | Per Hour

Job Code: 362545

End Date: 2025-07-03

Days Left: 26 days, 8 hours left

Client:                          Banking           

Job Title:                     Scrum Master

Duration:                     06 Months

Location:                     Buffalo, NY (3D onsite, 2D remote)

 Pay: $60-$65/hr.

Must be local to Buffalo or nearby area.

Overview:

  • Provides servant-leadership and mentorship to multiple cross-functional agile teams through effective application of Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP).
  • Strengthens understanding effective practices, theories, and techniques to support continuous improvement.
  • Educates and coaches teams to create an environment that fosters self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency, and continuous improvement.
  • Visualizes, communicates, and radiates team information to keep their work and impediments visible to stakeholders.

 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, information radiators, etc., to help create high performing teams.
  • Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the agile teams, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives.
  • Curate team-level coaching content used to guide teams regarding agile practices.
  • Facilitate meetings with the teams for purposes of idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving and alignment.
  • Help the teams gain transparency into their workflow through appropriate use of information radiators.
  • Address blocking issues that are beyond the team’s authority, or require support from other teams, so the teams remain focused on achieving their goals.
  • Work with other Agile Leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization.
  • Provide mentorship to less experienced Scrum Masters.
  • Seek and host a variety of individual and team learning opportunities, such as communities of practice, conferences, meetups, reading and classroom training.
  • Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
  • Design, implement, maintain, and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.

 

Education and experience required:

  • Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years’ experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 8 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years’ experience as a member of an agility team, including a minimum of 2 years Scrum Master experience.

 

Education and experience preferred:

  • Depth of knowledge in at least two technology team roles (project manager, user experience, business analyst, developer, testing, deployment).
  • Prior experience fostering team self-organization and continuous improvement.
  • Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices.
  • Experience developing/managing digital capabilities.
  • Understanding Design Thinking principles.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Prior experience leading through influence.  
Job Requirement
  • Banking Experience
  • Kanban
  • Scrum
  • Extreme programming
  • 2-8 years of Scrum master experience
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  • Recruiter
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Prasanna Kaskhedikar
  • prasanna.kaskhedikar@collabera.com
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