Senior Scrum Master

Our client is hiring a Senior Scrum Master on a long-term contract basis. Work Location: New York, New York Work Model: Hybrid Responsibilities: • Ensure that the project team adheres to project operational standards and follow processes for reporting tasks, defects and time • Organize and lead project status, working meetings and scrum ceremonies if applicable (such as daily standup, backlog grooming session and sprint retrospectives) • Prepare and distribute progress reports, meeting minutes, release notes, and deployment plans • Create new, update, and maintain Microsoft Azure DevOps dashboards. • With help from the team, implement, and maintain the project or work plan • Collaborate with the Product Owner to coordinate project schedules. • Ensure that the project team follows all quality assurance processes, including periodic reviews and knowledge transitions with minimum impact on project delivery. • Ensure that all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitment are communicated to all affected stakeholders and updated in Microsoft Azure DevOps. • Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations. • Define release scope and schedule, with focus on regular and timely delivery of value. • Collaborate with team to identify impediments and help facilitate resolution. • Seek management help to remove impediments being faced by the team. • Represent the project team at meetings. • Create project and work plans for assigned program work streams • Balance scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risks. Make adjustments as necessary. • Measure and monitor progress at clearly defined points in the process and take corrective actions to deliver the project on time, within budget. • Obtain buy-in from senior management for all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, quality assurance plans, budget, schedule, and scope changes. • Help define team member roles and expectations and ensure project resources are used effectively. • Assist in team development, while holding teams accountable for their commitments and removing roadblocks to their work. • Assist in leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work • Help manage relationships with all suppliers and subcontractors. Monitor their progress and adherence to the contract • Promote a customer-focused team that maintains high work and ethical standards. • Have a relentless focus on delivering a +1 customer experience. Required Qualifications: • Agile Scrum Master • Azure Devops • Demonstrated strong communication skills • Executive Communications • IT Software Cloud Technology Stack • Must be proficient in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, etc. • SLDC • Strong presentation skills • Strong project management experience • Strong project management skills • Strong knowledge of project management and software development methodology and tools: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, SDLC, Azure DevOps, SaFE • Experience leading and mentoring IT project teams • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Strong presentation skills • Ability to quickly react/produce in an Agile project atmosphere. • Ability to document and communicate the status of project progress against plans, taking corrective action as necessary. • Ability to manage the success of metrics defined by the project and the organization. • Ability to manage stakeholder relationships. • Ability to define, implement, and maintain project process guidance (e.g., project plan and subordinate plans), tailoring organizational processes as needed in collaboration with Scrum Master. • Ability to ensure team’s adherence to project processes and best practices identified in collaboration with Scrum Master. • Ability to identify, clarify, and resolve issues and risks, escalating them as needed. • Ability to negotiate changes to commitments/requirements. • Ability to review ongoing and proposed projects to identify opportunities for reuse and process improvement. Nice To Have: • Agile Scrum Master Certification • Reporting Development Pay Rate: $70 - $80 Job ID: 84250