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Scrum Master (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a Scrum Master for our client in Charlotte, North Carolina. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Description:

  • The successful candidate will lead the execution of a highly visible application development project in the Forecasting technology space at Bank of America. The candidate will lead multiple development teams as an agile scrum master, ensuring that development deliverables, epics and user stories are well defined and prioritized between our product owners in the CFO group and our development team consisting of Core Java, Angular Javascript, Oracle and Hadoop developers. The candidate will contribute to the software development lifecycle of products and services from inception stage through to the final implementation. The candidate would be required to work closely with the developers to define, build and test the solution often working on multiple projects/work-streams at the same time. The role requires:
  • Excellence in organization and communication
  • Proficiency to work with Senior Business stakeholders and translate business needs into technical requirements
  • Leadership skills to manage ad-hoc analysis or design deep dives
  • Understanding of the development lifecycle to ensure the designs are practical adopted by the delivery teams

Responsibilities Include:

  • Ensuring the teams work management system (JIRA) is well organized and kept up to date, partnering with Product Owners and Developers to make sure all work is well defined and managed
  • Responsible for maintaining delivery schedules and plans in an agile framework. Meaning regular updates through our agile/iterative process
  • Identify, record and escalate/address any issues, risks or impediments to delivery on committed work
  • Responsible for working with the developers to ensure correct understanding of requirements and then owning the functional delivery end to end
  • Defining testing requirements together with the QA team
  • Building and maintaining strong relationship with business product owners and development team members
  • Establishing and operate within the governance (decision making) structure for the program/project and manage/escalate issues and risks.
  • Contribute in design and development of the project-level roadmap, ensuring sufficient business benefit is realized within each phase.
  • Ensure projects are completed according to product specifications and are properly documented.
  • Work with data sourcing to source and validate data completeness from acquisition to report delivery.
  • Work with Stakeholders during UAT to ensure reports meet requirements and ensure all deliveries are signed-off.

Required Skills:

  • 10+ years’ experience with at least 3+ years’ experience as a Project Manager/Scrum Master
  • Either past hands on development experience with one or more of the following Java development, Javascript (Angular.JS or Node.JS), Oracle/SQL, Hadoop Development -OR-
  • Experience managing teams of developers using the above technologies.
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
  • Prior experience working on CFO technology projects, particularly experience with quarterly/monthly planning and forecasting business processes and related technology
  • Attention to detail and self-starter, with an ability to identify risks and issues and suggest improvements.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, networking and influencing skills
  • Ability to work across multiple business groups and domains
  • Ability to work in a fast paced environment and work under pressure
  • Collaborative, with an ability to share information, transfer knowledge and train new team members
  • Proven ability to balance business demands of different stakeholders and IT fulfilment in terms of standardization, reducing risk and increasing IT flexibility
  • Experience building high-performance, enterprise applications at scale.

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