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Job Description
About Innovecture:
Founded in 2007 under the leadership of CEO Shreyas Kamat, Innovecture LLC, began as a U.S. based Information Technology and Management Consulting Company focusing on technology consulting and services. With international development centers located in Salt Lake City, USA and Pune, India, Innovecture leverages its Global Agile Delivery Model to effectively deliver client projects within budget scope and project deadline. The primary focus of Innovecture is to provide a unique wealth of expertise and experience to the IT and Management Consulting realm by utilizing various technologies across multiple industry domains. Innovecture uses best-in-class design processes and top-quality talent to ensure the highest quality deliverables. With innovation embedded in its consulting and services approach, Innovecture will continue to deliver outstanding results for its Fortune 500 clients and employees.
Scrum Master Long Term New York, NY Onsite Role
- Maintaining dependency plan between planned sprints across engineering, infrastructure, and third parties
- Scrum Master experience is a MUST
- Has worked in an Agile delivery managing development scrum teams
- Breaking down barriers and shields the team from impediments precluding engineers from making progress against sprints and deadlines
- Organizing and facilitating daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint, and creating an environment in which the team is continuously learning from the past
- Engaging with Product Owner, Business Stakeholders, and delivery team to understand Business needs and identify appropriate solutions
- Tracking and communicating team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports
- Coordinating communications, escalating and facilitating resolution of risks, issues, and changes tied to the product development initiatives
- Facilitating discussions to identify alternative or different approaches to solve problems, break down barriers and drive resolution of conflicts to ensure productivity of the team.
- Steer and deliver project communications at all levels within Technology and business to ensure transparency of development process and project performance, to coordinate escalation and issue resolution, to facilitate decision making, and to build trust.
- Create an environment of continuous improvement through reflective conversation and regular retrospectives, with the goal to surface issues/concerns and to identify clear action steps.
- Influence without authority through effective change and leadership management.
- Technical delivery experience with a demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility
- Experience facilitating Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions on time, on budget, and to spec
- Experience in clarifying objectives, dealing with ambiguity/under-defined problems, advocating for simplification, and influencing teams
- Strong servant-leadership skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field required
- Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages a plus
- Scrum Master Certification preferred
- SAFe Certification preferred
- Experience using Rally and JIRA agile delivery management platform is a plus