Scrum Master jobs in Buffalo, NY

CTG is seeking to fill a Scrum Master opening for our client in Buffalo, NY.

Location: Buffalo, NY
Duration: 18 months

Overview:
Provides servant-leadership and mentorship to one cross-functional agile team through effective application of Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP). Strengthens understanding of effective practices, theories, and techniques to support continuous improvement. Educates and coaches the team to create an environment that fosters self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency, and continuous improvement. Visualizes, communicates, and radiates team information to keep their work and impediments visible to stakeholders.

Duties:
•    Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, information radiators, etc., to help create high performing teams.
•    Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the team, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives.
•    Facilitate meetings with the team for idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving and alignment.
•    Help the team gain transparency into their workflow through appropriate use of information radiators.
•    Address blocking issues that are beyond the team’s authority, or require support from other teams, so the team remains focused on achieving their goals.
•    Work with other Agile leaders to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile within the organization.
•    Seek and host a variety of individual learning opportunities such as communities of practice, conferences, meetups, reading and classroom training.
•    Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
•    Design, implement, maintain, and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
•    Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the company brand.
•    Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
•    Complete other related duties as assigned.
•    While not having direct management responsibility, the position manages activities through influence, accountability, and ownership, functioning in an agile environment.

Education and Experience Required:
Bachelors degree and a minimum of 2 years experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 1 years Scrum Master experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 6 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 2 years experience as a member of an agile team, including a minimum of 1 years Scrum Master experience.

Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required.

CTG does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee based recruitment services for this role.

To Apply:
To be considered, please apply directly to this requisition using the link provided. For additional information, please contact Laura Dominguez at 716-887-7203 or Laura.Dominguez@ctg.com. Kindly forward this to any other interested parties. Thank you!