Scrum Master - Contract

Company Overview

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology integrator and supply chain solutions provider. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build and deliver business results, from idea to outcome.

Based in St. Louis, WWT works closely with industry leaders such as Cisco, HPE, Dell EMC, NetApp, VMware, Intel, AWS, Microsoft, and F5, focusing on three market segments: Fortune 500 companies, service providers and the public sector. WWT is a $14.5 billion dollar privately held organization that employs more than 8,000 people and operates in more than 2.5+ million square feet of state-of-the-art warehousing, distribution and integration space strategically located throughout the world. WWT is proud to announce that it has been named on the FORTUNE "100 Best Places to Work For" list for the ninth consecutive year and was awarded for multiple categories on Glassdoor’s 2019 Employees' Choice Awards, honoring the Best Places to Work.

Description

Scrum Masters at Edward Jones are servant leaders that support and enable teams to stay focused and foster an environment for relentless improvement and continuous learning whuile utilizing a Lean-Agile mindset. They collaborate and work closely with their team, Product owners, Product Delivery Managers, Release Train Engineers, and other Scrum Masters

Responsibilities

• Facilitate scrum events, including Spring Planning, Daily Standups, Spring Review and Demo, and Spring Retrospective. Support PI Planning and Scrum of Scrums.
• Work with the scrum team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, remove blockers and impediments by coordinating with other Scrum Masters and teams, to influence and drive decision making, and support organizational project or product teams.
• Monitor and track Team metrics and take appropriate actions.
• Guide and coach the scrum team on how to use agile practices and principles to deliver quality products and business value. Foster collaboration and psychologically safe environment between team members.
• Be an active participant in the Scrum Master Community of Practice and contribute ideas to the Product and Agile Center of Excellence.
• Document and monitor team working agreements.
• Understand at a high Level the product(s) and technology your team(s) supports/uses within 90 days.
• Support Agile Coach or RTE with Agile Assessments, and Product and Agile workshops and training sessions.
• Elevate your teams’ performance and relentless improvement by planning and evolving team metrics, recognizing areas of strength, and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
• During Scrum Master Community of Practice, share learnings from your team impediments and successes with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the mastery and application of Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies within the organization. Identify Anti-Patterns and address them with the team.
• Evaluate current Team level practices and where appropriate implement improvements.
• Support multiple normal sized teams.
• Lead Agile Assessments, and Product and Agile workshops and training sessions.
• Suggest creative Programs to anti-patterns.
• Mentor and serve as a role model to other scrum masters.
• Evaluate current ART level practices and where appropriate work with your RTE to implement improvements.

Work Mode: Remote (ready to visit Edward Jones office once in 12 weeks or during any meeting)
Work Timing: 2 PM-11 PM IST