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Job Title: Agile Scrum Master
Location: Jersey City, NJ (3 days onsite 2 days remote)
Duration: 12 Months Contract

Job Description:
Exp: 15 + years

• Looking for someone with Scrum master and project Management experience with technical skills like Big Data, ETL or Python and banking domain exp is mandatory.
• Facilitate Program level events and processes and assist the teams in delivering value. Influences leaders, teams, and Stake holders in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets. Drives epic-level prioritization and sequencing decisions with key stakeholders through value vs estimation process.
• Assess the agility level of the Program and help them improve. Facilitate Agile processes and execution. Provide the support needed by the Agile Delivery Teams, Product Teams, and Programs to be self-organizing and self-managing. Escalate and track impediments, manage risk and dependencies, help ensure value delivery, and help drive relentless improvement.
• Support Business, IT, and Product Management alignment on vision, roadmap, and priorities of the Program. Engage and optimize the flow of value through the Project using various tools and other information radiators. Establish a cadence and support cross-Project planning centered around value streams. Work with Product Management, Solutions Management, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment.
• Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings within and across Projects. Assist tracking the execution of features within the Project. Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks. Support release management activities. Provide the delivery metrics to leadership team. Good understanding in Big Data, Modelling, Web Services, Python and ETL. Understand the overall architecture and challenge the development team.
• Min 15+ years of experience in Project Management and Scrum Master role for a software development team
• Release Train Engineer
• Good experience with Agile methodologies (Kanban, TDD, etc.) and toolsets (Atlassian suite, JIRA etc.)
• First level Scrum Master Certification (CSM) or SAFe Scrum Master Certification or Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) or PSM Certification(s)
• Ability to understand the architectural concepts.
• Strong expertise in planning, execution and reporting.
• Proven track record of ownership and driving projects.
• Strong negotiation and communication skills
• Good experience in release management activities
• PMP Certification
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
• Banking domain experience Preferred

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