Scrum Master

The Scrum Master is a key role on highly complex projects that serves as a liaison between the business community and Information Technology (I.T.). Will collaborate with key stakeholders to analyze and document requirements, determine solutions, assist in addressing any project impediments, and prioritizes demand in accordance with business needs and IT capacity. Manage and lead agile scrum ceremonies including but not limited to sprint planning, daily scrum, user story refinement sessions and sprint retrospective. Maintains a team TFS backlog for multiple applications, establishes and monitors sprint goals, helps to resolve risk and issues, and applies process improvements for more efficient sprint planning. The Scrum Master will collaborate with the product owners, project sponsors, application developers, QA testers, architects, and if required; 3rd party vendors to implement projects that bring value to our organization. 

Required Skills:

• Experience with Business Process Analysis and Documentation, Business Requirements Elicitation, Workflow Analysis, MS Visio, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), Agile Methodologies, and User Stories.
• Experience with Azure DevOps/TFS
• Applicant must be detail-oriented, have excellent facilitation, elicitation, and documentation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• It is for an initial one year contract and of course if they are performing well they can be there for 5 years