Apex Systems is looking to hire a Scrum Master/Scrum Lead for their Global Client in the Raleigh NC area.
This is a HYBRID role, with a two-day mandatory onsite requirement.
About Us: Our Global Client is committed to driving innovation and excellence in product delivery. We foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement, where creativity and resourcefulness are highly valued. Join our dynamic team and be a part of our journey towards delivering exceptional business value.
Role Summary: The Scrum Lead is responsible for the successful delivery of projects and initiatives within our organization. This role involves close collaboration with stakeholders, engineering, UI/UX, and product management teams to facilitate project delivery. The Scrum Lead also provides agile coaching support to assigned teams, ensuring effective and efficient delivery processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Project Delivery: Accountable for the day-to-day support and delivery of projects within the development team.
- Agile Coaching: Provide agile coaching to the team and product partners, driving the effectiveness of agile ceremonies.
- Continuous Improvement: Lead the team in identifying and implementing better ways of working, focusing on iterative and incremental value delivery.
- Expectation Management: Manage expectations on delivery and capacity, communicating progress towards goals and milestones.
- Issue Resolution: Identify and manage issues, risks, and dependencies early, working to resolve them in a timely manner.
- Team Support: Assist teams in staying focused and organized, facilitating continuous improvement through regular retrospectives and metrics analysis.
- Cross-Team Coordination: Help with cross-team communications and coordinate dependencies, tracking meeting minutes, actions, follow-ups, and summaries.
Role Competencies:
- Commitment to Lean Agile Practices: Champion ingenuity at all levels, creating a culture of innovation and learning where it is okay to fail.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present information concisely and effectively to a broad audience, including senior and executive management.
- Business Results Oriented: Outcomes-focused, self-motivated, and autonomous, with a strong understanding of the connection to business value.
- Project Management: Strong organizational, project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments.
- Building Relationships: Ability to build meaningful and trusting relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders and teams.
- Problem Solving: Advanced experience in leading teams to troubleshoot and diagnose complex project issues.
- Time Management: Effectively manage time and resources to ensure work is completed efficiently.
- Adaptability: Maintain effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment.
Skills/Knowledge Requirements:
- Project Management: Expertise in scheduling, release planning, risk identification and mitigation, influencing, resource management, project planning, and change management.
- Agile: Deep knowledge of Agile philosophy and principles, experience in coaching teams and stakeholders in Agile practices, and familiarity with delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and scaled frameworks (Scrum-at-Scale, SAFe, LeSS).
- Soft Skills: Strong executive presence, facilitation skills, written and verbal communication, stakeholder relations, negotiation, and presentation skills.
Personal Success Characteristics:
- Self-Starter: Proactively sees work and gets it done to support project goals without waiting for direction.
- Detail-Oriented: Capable of juggling multiple tasks, both big and small.
- Organized: Keeps projects straight and moving forward.
- Effective Time Manager: Manages available time (self and team) to get the right work done at the right time.
- Effective Communicator: Ensures the right message/request gets to the right people in a timely manner.
- Leadership: Not afraid to jump into situations to ensure the right outcome, setting the tone with a sense of urgency and calm influence.
Join Us: If you are passionate about agile practices and have a proven track record of leading successful project deliveries, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to become a part of our innovative team!