Agile Rising helps our clients — which include some of the world's largest companies and government agencies — transform, modernize, and achieve business agility. We specialize in leading Digital and Agile Transformations, SAFe, Business Agility, Lean Portfolio Management, Product Management, and Technology Business Management, and provide some of the most experienced Agile Coaches available. If that sounds like you, we want you on the Agile Rising team!

As a SAFe Gold SPCT Partner, we are trusted by our customers to help them successfully adopt the Lean-Agile mindset and practices. From transformation strategy to launching Agile Release Trains to coaching programs and teams through the entire innovation and development process, we help drive outcomes and delivery of business value. We provide certification training, facilitate workshops, and provide coaching and mentoring to coach teams through the critical stages of their transition. Learn more about Agile Rising on our website.

We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master to facilitate and guide scrum teams. The Scrum Master's responsibilities include ensuring that agile teams follow the Scrum values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

To be successful as a Scrum Master, you should have a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively facilitate and mentor agile teams. An outstanding Scrum Master should have excellent interpersonal, coaching, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.

Scrum Master Responsibilities:

• Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions
• Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices
  
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements
• Organizing and facilitating demos and product/system testing
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the agile team
• Establish and gather agile metrics
• Configure agile lifecycle management tooling
• Ensure external dependencies are managed and stakeholders are effectively engaged throughout the process

Scrum Master Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred
• Certified Scrum Master or SAFe Advanced Scrum Master
• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role
• Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum (required) and Kanban, to deliver solutions
  
• Excellent people, communication, and presentation skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with application modernization/migration efforts
• Experience with LeanKit
• SAFe SPC certification

This is a contract-to-hire position with a requirement to work on-site in Kansas City. The client company will have the option of hiring the Scrum Master as a full-time employee after six months.