Scrum Master
Location: Salisbury, North Carolina 28147
Duration: 6-month, Contract
Pay: $60-70/hour 

JOB DESCRIPTION  
Pushing the bounds of the retail world, this company is highly successful and accumulates over fifty billion dollars in annual revenue. Diversity of thought, community, and even location is paramount to this company, which is why this company has expanded their communal reach to over two thousand different storefronts. With a mind for diversity, this company understands the worth of their employees and they strive to create a practical work life balance for their employees. This practical and diverse mentality is extended to the ample opportunities that they offer to their employees, including overtime for contractors, as well as other monetary and title-based incentives. Longevity of employment is pivotal to this company, and they actively search and create long term employment options even for contractors. Between the diversity that this company offers and the job security that this company offers, even to contactors, this company proves that it has an unequivocal entrepreneurial spirit and is insurmountably invested in their employees.

This Scrum Master will help oversee the scrum and development team. They should be knowledgeable in Agile methodology and scrum and able to educate others. They will also act as a buffer between the scrum team and product owner and maintain a safe working environment for the team by helping with conflict resolution.
RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Works collaboratively with partners in IT, business areas and vendors in understanding, and enhancing business requirements to create technical, and functional specifications.
• Leads the design, build, validation, implementation, and maintenance of IT application systems and/or infrastructure solutions in support of our current, and future business needs.
• Acting in a scrum master role, they must execute the backlog as wished by product owner, making sure that deliverables are on time with production quality.
• Interfaces with and guides software engineers and/or vendor partners in providing clarifications on design patterns, as needed.
• Performs solution verification to ensure the solution is built in accordance with the specifications meeting business and technical requirements.
• Provides support and/or interfaces with support teams, internal or external, to ensure business and technical issues with applications and/or infrastructure are resolved timely and effectively.
• Ensure compliance with project delivery methods, tools, framework, and IT controls.
• Working knowledge of PPM and Agile tools (Jira)
• In an Agile methodology, may facilitate the scrum ceremonies.
• Ensures that the project is working smoothly, and every team member has tools to get their work done efficiently.
• Acting in a scrum master role, they must execute the backlog as wished by product owner, making sure that deliverables are on time with production quality.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field.
• Thorough understanding of enterprise software development lifecycle; ability to adjust and apply this knowledge in a dynamic environment using agile methodologies.
• Bring a data-driven approach to decision making, both in day-to-day activities and when helping others make strategic trade-offs.
• Self-starter with the ability to lead teams through ambiguity to solve problems and drive results.
• Strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship-building skills conducive to collaboration; able to work well in a cross-functional environment.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a history of hands-on, detail orientated.
• Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior executives and technical and non-technical team members alike.

Category Code: JN008