Career Opportunities with Strong-Bridge Envision Consulting
At Strong-Bridge Envision Consulting (an HCL technologies company) , we work as true partners both with our employees and our clients, embodying our number one value: People First . Our team is driven by a desire to always learn, improve, and innovate. We take an open-minded approach to opportunities and challenges and are focused on solving business challenges.
Strong-Bridge Envision Consulting (an HCL technologies company) is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to join our firm as a dedicated full-time employee. This is a remote opportunity working with our clients!
The candidate manages the day-to-day responsibilities of the scrum and helps facilitate the goals that are trying to be achieved by the team within the framework of the Agile methodology.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate scrum events such as daily standups, planning and prioritization meetings.
- Work closely with Product Management to understand milestones, share estimates and check that expectations can be met.
- Ensure that the scrum board is up-to-date and prioritized, and ensure improvements are implemented.
- Facilitate meetings and communication between product owner stakeholders and development team members to ensure the highest value work is top priority in the backlog.
- Understand goals of project, create Agile development strategy, assist in developing project planning and strategy.
- Participate in larger Scrum Master team objectives, including process improvement, release preparation, and project management tasks.
- Facilitate collaboration daily to remove impediments and reduce risk.
- Provide servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency to the team.
Qualifications and Experience:
- 3-5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, preferably within a Fortune 500 corporation.
- Bachelor of Arts or Science required, degree in Information Systems preferred.
- Certified Scrum Master certification from Scrum Alliance or Professional Scrum Master certification from Scrum Org required.
- 3+ years of experience in scaled Agile approaches.
- 3+ years of experience with creating effective communication channels (team, Product Owner, stakeholder).
- Experience in removing impediments that would prevent the team from achieving its sprint and release goals (internal and external to the team).
- 2+ years of experience with successful Agile techniques such as User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing.
- 4+ years of experience and knowledge of Kanban framework.
- Experience and knowledge of backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task definition.
- Deep understanding of Agile values, principles, as well as Scrum framework.
- Possess curiosity with an appetite for learning and supporting teams spanning a wide array of technologies and practices.
- Passion for constantly driving your teams and the organization to continuous improvement.
- Minimum of 3 years of consulting experience with either a Big 4 Consulting firm or a more specialized boutique consulting firm specializing in technology delivery.
- Ability to work permanently in the U.S. on a full-time basis.
- Must be in the Seattle area; with ability to work on the client site 100% of the time.
Desired Skills:
- A talent for multi-tasking, meeting deadlines, learning new skills and methodologies, and working under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work independently.
- Flexible working style, ability to work in various types of client environments.
- Excellent communication skills, and proven ability to communicate effectively across the organization.
- Ability to lead decision making through influence, with the ability to make sound decisions in the best interest of the client as needed throughout the project lifecycle.
- Collaborative working style with the ability to flex with many different types of working styles on client site.