C012418: Scrum Master
Job Location:
St. Louis, MO
The role:
As an IT professional with Ferguson Consulting, you will have the opportunity to develop state-of-the-art technical skills. You will need the maturity, motivation and some previous client experience to work productively in our client organizations. As a Ferguson employee, and a consultant to our end client, you will be able to focus on your technical skills development - which is what we do best.
Our rigorous screening for technical skills and client compatibility and our commitment to continuing education make our consultant’s valuable assets to the clients we serve. Our client’s know that Ferguson’s professionals will fit seamlessly with their operations and their staff.
We’ve learned over the years how to comply with our clients’ unique procurement procedures and to keep in step with their overall processes so we can be responsive to their requests and requirements.
Position Overview:
As an fulltime employee of Ferguson Consulting, you will be performing a Scrum Master role within the eCommerce group at our telecommunications client. The development stack is Java technologies. You will provide effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching skills supporting the agile development process and delivery of our client’s enterprise applications. As an agile expert, the Scrum Master will be responsible for driving project execution, removing impediments and promoting transparency. You will facilitate daily stand-ups and ensure the integrity of the agile process by capturing team metrics and removing obstacles to drive projects to successful release.
Responsibilities:
- Coach the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices
- Act as Scrum Master for agile teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards project goals while also improving the way they work
- Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
- Ensure cross-team coordination
- Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing
Experience
:- Not abrasive, but assertive enough to get the job done
- Extremely detail-oriented and willing to ask a lot of questions to ensure the team is moving in the right direction (but also retains the answers to the questions and applies that knowledge to drive their actions)
- Proactive and someone who thinks downstream and plans ahead rather than just focused on what is in front of them
- Scrum Master experience. Client is moving away from a traditional PM type of role. These roles will be true Scrum Masters. Candidate will need experience facilitating the following types of activities:
- Backlog Grooming and Planning
- Story Mapping
- Effective stand-ups
- Retrospectives
- Sprint Demos
- Burn-down/Burn-up/Velocity reporting
- Scrum experience in an environment that was very new to Agile/Scrum would be helpful as it gives them more perspective as to what the client is going through
- Experience with capacity planning and determining resource capacity within the scrum team, is a plus
- Experience managing and building sprint boards and managing backlogs in JIRA, is a plus
- Experience working with a scrum/project team that had a mixture of individuals located locally as well as in another country/state is also a plus
Requirements
:- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field
- At least 3 years of hands on experience working as a Scrum Master
- Excellent communication skills in English in written and spoken form
- Effective leadership and the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Experience with JIRA
- Experience with AHA is a plus
The benefits:
We hire IT professionals who like to work with smart people and can hold their own in a demanding environment. Our employees build a career at Ferguson. Here IT isn’t a support function for our business – it IS our business. We strive to develop a professional relationship with each employee – and that is what you are, our direct employee. Our pay and benefit levels recognize the advanced skills of our talented staff members. In addition, we are unique in our market in the emphasis that we place on continuing education, including an annual training allowance that is an integral part of our compensation package. This kind of investment in our employees’ professional development is an important contributor to making Ferguson a desirable place to build an IT career. As a W-2 employee, your first assignment will be just that – the first of many. Our goal is to establish a long-term employee relationship with you.
The compensation:
Highly competitive base salary.
Paid overtime
$.60/$1 401K match
160 hours of Paid Time Off (PTO) Benefits
Bonus System
Health, vision, dental, and life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability
Training allowance for Leading Industry Professional Training with SLU/Wash U.
How to Apply:
If you are looking for a change and/or are interested in building or continuing your career as an IT professional and have the ability to thrive in challenging, fast-paced environments, we want to hear from you.
Please send your resume to Katie McElhone at kmcelhone@fergcons.com
Please review our website fergusonconsultinginc.com and find out more about who we are and what we can do for you.
