Nisum is a leading global digital commerce firm headquartered in California, with services spanning digital strategy and transformation, insights and analytics, blockchain, business agility, and custom software development. Founded in 2000 with the customer-centric motto “Building Success Together®,” Nisum has grown to over 1,800 professionals across the United States, Chile,Colombia, India, Pakistan and Canada. A preferred advisor to leading Fortune 500 brands, Nisum enables clients to achieve direct business growth by building the advanced technology they need to reach end customers in today’s world, with immersive and seamless experiences across digital and physical channels.

What You'll Do

• Initiates and facilitates project kick-off and inception activities
• Coaches and mentors other Scrum Masters to encourage consistent, core best practices across the teams
• Takes responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum teams and third parties, release managers, or between the Scrum teams
• Exhibits desire to continuously learn new tools, techniques, and methodologies from teams and Agile community
• Understands Continuous integration and deployment and Exhibits ability to run projects in the Scrum and Kanban methodologies, with multiple outside dependencies and remote project team members
• Effectively communicates with cross-functional teams
• May develop and deliver formal presentations and training programs to end users, project teams, management teams, and executive management
• Interacts seamlessly with both business and project teams
• Facilitates discussions that lead to the resolution of project issues and development impediments
• Reports project progress to Program Management and executive-level stakeholders
• Properly manages shared resources across multiple projects
• Ensures all proper training and user documentation has been implemented
• Has working knowledge and understanding of Agile Software Development Methodology and incremental delivery
• Exhibits a desire to improve continuously, and shows a track record of improvement
• Communicate openly and frequently with stakeholders and subject matter experts regarding the state of the project

What You Know

• 8+ years of work as a team member or project manager on a scrum project teams
• 3+ years acting as a ScrumMaster in a software development environment working with multiple teams
• ScrumMaster certification (CSM)
• Prior experience in a fast-paced agile environment will be critical to planning and overseeing day-to-day development activities and managing work against competing deliverables.
• Successful experience for at least 2-3 years using the agile framework, preferably in the role of Iteration Manager.
• 1+ years of practical experience in software development is helpful.
• Excellent communication in both written and oral.
• High level of energy and enthusiasm.
• SAFe certification with hands-on knowledge.
• Flexible work and leadership style to maximize team performance.
• High-level technical familiarity with distributed systems and web technologies.
• Subject matter expertise in retail/eCommerce is a plus.
• Strong communication and presentation skills will be integral to conducting iteration planning meetings, hosting demonstrations, and facilitating retrospectives with team members and stakeholders.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Applications, or related field

Benefits

• In addition to competitive salaries and benefits packages, Nisum US offers its employees some unique and fun extras:
• Professional Development - We offer in-house technical training and professional learning programs aimed at developing skills across a broad spectrum of topics such as technology, leadership, role-based training, and process expertise. We also offer an annual stipend for employees to attend external courses in order to maintain professional certifications
• Health & Wellness Benefits - We believe that your health and welfare are important, and we strive to ensure that you have affordable options available to you, including some plans that are subsidized for employees and their families up to 90%. We also have dental and vision plans in the US where Nisum pays 100% of premiums for employees
• Volunteerism Pay - We believe in giving back and in the US, our employees are eligible for up to 40 hours of paid time off each year to volunteer towards the causes that they are most passionate about. This is in addition to personal PTO and paid holidays
• Additional Benefits - We offer all the other important benefits to keep employees and their families healthy and financially secure, such as 401(k) retirement savings with a company match, pre-tax parking and transit programs, disability insurance, and Basic Life/AD&D, alongside exclusive employee discounts on a wide variety of products and services

Compensation Band

• $110-120k per year

Nisum is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity and inclusion in the workplace.