Scrum Master Standard III

Position Summary:
Title: Scrum Master Standard III
Duration: 6 Months Possible Extension
Location: Washington, DC 20433

Hybrid Onsite: 4 days per week from Day 1, with a full transition to 100% onsite anticipated soon

Required Experience:
Agile delivery leadership: Lead sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives using Scrum/Kanban practices.
Business and technology alignment: Work closely with product owners, business teams, architects, developers, security, and platform teams to keep priorities and delivery aligned.
Delivery planning: Translate roadmap priorities into executable sprints, milestones, dependencies, and release plans.
Dependency and blocker management: Proactively identify cross-team dependencies, risks, blockers, and decisions, and drive them to closure.
Backlog readiness: Ensure epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, priorities, and dependencies are sufficiently defined before development starts.
AI delivery awareness: Understand the delivery lifecycle for AI solutions, including data/content readiness, AI evaluation, responsible AI controls, security reviews, and business validation.
Release coordination: Coordinate testing, user acceptance testing, production readiness, deployment, and post-release follow-up across teams.
Tracking and reporting: Maintain accurate delivery status in tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira, covering milestones, sprint progress, risks, dependencies, and action items.
Stakeholder communication: Provide concise status updates and escalate issues requiring product, business, or management decisions.
Team facilitation: Remove impediments, improve collaboration, reinforce accountability, and continuously improve the team's delivery practices.

EEO:

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.

Skills:
Acceptance Testing, Agile Programming Methodologies, Atlassian JIRA, Backlog Prioritization, Business Architecture, Continuous Improvement, DevOps, Kanban, Leadership, Microsoft Windows Azure, Scrum Project Management and Software Development, ScrumMaster, Security Infrastructure, Sprint Planning, Standup Meetings

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