Rally Scrum Master/Agile Team Facilitator

Reference Code: 8290

Position: Rally Scrum Master/Agile Team Facilitator
Client: Tier 1 Automotive Supplier
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 month contract with possible extension

Key Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Facilitate Daily Standups, Story Mapping, Iteration Planning Meetings, Demos, Retrospectives, and Story Acceptance sessions  
• Create and prioritize an actionable backlog of stories to help build new features with required definition of ready and done 
• Work closely with Product Owner, Consumers, back-end data sources (internal and external) to ensure high data quality and high data availability 
• Collaborate with Software Engineers and Architects to define, unblock, and split stories 
• Validate completed stories by gathering detailed metrics for feedback where necessary 
• Lead ceremonies that help define the work to be done, improve team process, and align the team to specific objectives 
• Participate in governance, portfolio release train and other processes and ceremonies to ensure all work within the portfolio produces the most value possible 
• Identify risks, and implement mitigation and contingency plans, focused on early mitigation or elimination of Risks 
• Track upcoming Change request and Requirements to update test cases and validate specific requirements 
• Facilitate adoption of relevant Ford processes, employ/champion Agile software processes, culture, best practices, and techniques
• Partner with Product Owners and develop and as required execute test scenarios at various levels (functional, user acceptance) within Agile Framework 
• Participate in triage and debugging sessions for in-house and/or third-party tool integration issues 
• Grow subject matter expertise, provide guidance to other members on the team and detail our capabilities to help educate partners 

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, engineering 
• 5+ years Agile Team Facilitator or Scrum Master experience 
• 2+ years of experience with CA Agile Central (Rally) 
• 3+ years of experience with Agile methodology 
• Skilled at capacity planning, story pointing and team performance metrics 
• Skilled at defining and prioritizing product features 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrated ability to coordinate and establish trust and positive relationships across teams 
• Proactive attitude and not afraid to ask question and ability to operate with an Agile mentality in an ambiguous environment 
• Good organizational and time-management skills 

Preferred Skills:

• Supply Chain Domain Experience Automotive Experience Large Scale Integrations

For more information, please call our Recruiter directly at 847.440.2458. To submit your application, click on the 'Apply for Job' link below or send your resume directly to cody.sloan@bluestonestaffing.com

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