Immediate Job Opening: Scrum Master Consultant

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LOCATION: Atlanta, GA

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People in our Client Delivery & Operations career track drive delivery and capability excellence through the design, development and/or delivery of a solution, service, capability or offering. They grow into delivery-focused roles, and can progress within their current role, laterally or upward.

Software Engineering professionals work across the Service Delivery Lifecycle to analyze, design, build, test, implement and/or maintain multiple system components or applications for Accenture or our clients.

Job Description

Agile professionals define an adaptive model based on greater collaboration and communication between teams; Agile is a cultural change that impacts people, processes and tools in different ways across the organization; based on iterative, time boxed and incremental approach, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing and Cross-Function teams, Agile promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery and encourages a rapid and flexible response to change. Agile Coaching professionals help adopt and improve agile at project or enterprise level.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure team compliance with agile scrum framework/ADM
  • Facilitate process activities of Agile software development/scrum encouraging and supporting the teams to self-manage their iterations using a servant-leader management style
  • Train others in the Scrum Framework
  • Remove barriers to effectiveness
  • Manage external tasks
  • Overall sprint and data management for the project
  • Tracks team capacity and velocity metrics for planning purposes
  • Ensure self-organized team’s continuous improvement – Monitor and coach
  • Serve as communication liaison between the team and Product Owner, Program Manager, and Stakeholder
  • Develop people through coaching and by fostering a positive work environment
  • Schedule, plan and facilitate collaboration per the Scrum framework, daily stand-up meetings, regular iteration reviews and planning meetings between the team, Product Owner, and stakeholders
  • Schedule and facilitate regular team retrospective meetings per the scrum framework
  • Work with the Product Owners to identify that the product backlog is in place and ranked/ groomed to the appropriate level to start and continue development iterations
  • Challenge the team to implement team operational improvements.
  • Encourage and instill process improvements
  • Ensure that identified agile software progress metrics are in place and that the team and product owner are enabled to input data for said metrics. Responsible for collating and preparing metric data on a regular basis using repeatable methods
  • Assist self-managing teams to coordinate resources and accepted work
  • Monitor the team’s work flow
  • Assist the product owner in maintaining a product strategy/roadmap, including competitive and market positioning
  • Facilitate ADM/ Scrum Framework process compliance inspections and artefact creation and inspections.

Basic Qualifications

  • Minimum 6 years IT/software process improvement experience
  • Minimum 6 years Development or test experience
  • Minimum 6 years of experience managing teams
  • Minimum 4 years of leadership experience within an agile software development team
  • Minimum 4 years of Agile experience
  • Minimum 2 year of managing multiple Agile teams (i.e.scrum of scrums)

Preferred Skills

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • At least 2 years of experience in agile coaching and training.
  • Hands on experience on agile flavors such as SAFe, Scrum and Kanban.
  • Nice to have knowledge about CI, DevOps TDD BDD practices.
  • Certified SAFe Agilist SA, CSM, CSPO

Professional Skill Requirements

  • Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
  • Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
  • Desire to work in an information systems environment
  • Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status). Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Mark Simonsen

Talent Acquisition Expert

mark.e.simonsen@accenture.com

(720) 359-5839

 

About Jeff Cavanagh

Jeff Cavanagh spent his freshman year at St. Petersburg Junior College back in the early 70s before enlisting in the United States Navy. Soon after, he attended Jacksonville University on a Navy ROTC scholarship. After college, he was commissioned and became a qualified Surface Warfare Officer spending the next 22 years honing his skills as a ship-handler and expert recruiter before retiring in 1994. Jeff expresses a deep sense of pride in St. Petersburg College due to connections that go back many years. His father, Tom Cavanagh, was a career Air Force fighter pilot and combat veteran who taught Geography and Western Civilization at St. Petersburg Junior College in the 60’s and 70’s.