The Role
Lead Agile transformation and serve as Scrum Master/Agile Coach. Facilitate Scrum/Kanban practices, set up JIRA Cloud intake processes, coach teams, report status to executives, and enable high-performing IT delivery.
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Greetings Everyone
Who are we?
For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. For a brief 1 minute video about us, you can check https://youtu.be/uJWBWQZEA6o.
What will you do?
- Hands-on experience in Agile practices, Scrum process, Kanban as an Agile Coach/Scrum Master.
- Proven experience transforming teams to Agile /Scrum from a waterfall or other methodologies
- Set up of request intake and approval processes in JIRA Cloud
- Excellent communication and people-interaction skills. Organized and disciplined nature and have a continuous improvement mindset.
- Ability to provide project statuses for Senior and Executive Management focusing on the key initiative of interest
- Proven leadership experience in IT delivery, building and sustaining high-performing teams.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing, highly complex environment.
- Demonstrate strong analytical, conceptual and quantitative problem-solving skills.
- Able to provide need-based coaching to team members to be agile and support agile delivery.
- Extensive experience as Scrum Master
- Ability to understand the business requirements and able to translate this to the technical leads
- Knowledge of multiple technical software delivery life cycles
- Advanced knowledge of business management methodology, change management theory and practices, and process engineering methodologies.
- Preferred certifications of Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Agile Certified Professional (ACP), Safe Program Consultant (SPC), Safe Agilist (SA).
- Performs other duties as assigned
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) majors, or 6+ years of equivalent work experience in IT involving continuous process improvement, project management, business requirements, and analysis
- Competent with JIRA, MS Project, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat Pro
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and project management skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively and follow up to ensure achievement of deadlines, outcomes, and results
- Demonstrate company core values of excellence, ownership, collaboration, and integrity
Skills Required
- Hands-on experience in Agile practices, Scrum process, Kanban as an Agile Coach/Scrum Master
- Proven experience transforming teams to Agile/Scrum from waterfall or other methodologies
- Set up of request intake and approval processes in JIRA Cloud
- Extensive experience as Scrum Master
- Ability to provide project statuses for Senior and Executive Management
- Proven leadership experience in IT delivery and building sustaining high-performing teams
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate to technical leads
- Knowledge of multiple technical software delivery life cycles
- Advanced knowledge of business management methodology, change management theory and process engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or STEM, or 6+ years equivalent IT experience
- Competent with JIRA, MS Project, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat Pro
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and project management skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively and follow up to ensure deadlines and outcomes
- Preferred certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Agile Certified Professional (ACP), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe Agilist (SA)
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The Company
What We Do
Photon.com has emerged as one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing Digital Agencies. We work with 40% of the Fortune 100 on their Digital initiatives and are known for our ability to integrate Strategy Consulting, Creative Design, and Technology at scale. Please visit www.photon.com to learn more about us, how we work, and our customer case studies. Digital Transformation Starts Here.
