Are you a strong developer ready to lead agile scrum teams? We build web portals and mobile applications that help people manage their health information and apply for government benefits (mostly in public health, see www.lifia.org)?
As Scrum Master, you will be our technical lead of the development teams building products to delight our customers. You must have experience leading successful scrums and have strong technical and customer service skills.
What you will do
- Lead the software development life cycle (SDLC) processes, technology, and tools
- Lead multiple scrum teams
- Work closely with Product Owners to maintain and prioritize the user stories including the product backlog refinement
- Develop team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint
- Schedule and facilitate scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review and retrospectives
- Measure and monitor progress
- Manage relationships and coordinate with stakeholders
- Run early Proof of Concept projects / studies
- Set deadlines and deliverables to align with stakeholder requirements
- Collaborate with Product Owners or Program Managers to communicate delivery of product and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness
- Contribute to process improvement and learning to optimize of scrum team velocity
- Ensure and promote compliance with security and other standards
What you'll need to get the job done
- Experience as a practicing, certified Scrum Master
- 3+ years multi-project management experience in a technical (SDLC) environment
- Able to promote the value of servant leadership, situational awareness, conflict management, continuous improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency
- Experienced with writing effective user stories, test plans, and acceptance criteria
- Knowledge of design patterns and best practices for facilitation of agile teams
- Experienced team building skills working with various-sized, distributed, or co-located teams
- Ability to server multiple teams with low complexity deliverables
- Proficiency in using project management and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Microsoft Teams, Excel, and Confluence
- Comfortable leading diverse, high-performance teams
- Experience with GitHub, Jenkins, and cloud solutions
- Detailed understanding of agile software development lifecycles
- Experience with Agile/DevOps/Quality practices (test-driven development, test automation, etc.)
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI, CD) processes and tools
- Extensive knowledge of SDLC methodologies
- Startup mentality and get hands dirty mindset
- Excellent written, inter-personal and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's degree or 7+ years of software development experience
- Familiarity with these technologies: Microsoft .NET, C#, SQL, REST APIs, JavaScript/Angular, Atlassian products (JIRA & Confluence), test automation, and unit test frameworks
Work Environment
This job is in a professional, dynamic office environment. At times, this position can require long hours and weekend work. Travel is primarily local during the business day with occasional out-of-area and overnight travel. Join a vibrant technical community making the world a better place. Our engineers are responsible for designing new platform integrations that drive our products. Our teams are building and managing systems that have a big impact on our communities. For example, our teams help people find work, analyze legislation, manage healthcare choices, comply with special education planning requirements, and securely communicate over mobile and web applications. Contribute to a positive work environment by demonstrating cultural awareness and influencing others through mentoring, appreciation of everyone's strengths, "can do" optimism, joy, accountability, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, creativity, and fun.
It is the policy of A.J. Boggs & Company to provide equal opportunity in its employment on the basis of merit and fitness and without discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, weight, height, marital status, age, or political affiliation (except where any such criterion constitutes a bona fide occupational qualification).
Benefits & Compensation
We know it's our people that make us great. We offer competitive compensation and a broad range of benefits, including Health, Dental & Vision insurance; employee equity compensation program, Holidays & Personal Days; partial Internet and cell phone service expense reimbursement; ongoing opportunities for professional development and a company IRA retirement account match. For more information, visit www.ajboggs.com/careers/
Location
This position is full-time and located in A.J. Boggs & Company's Headquarters in Okemos, Michigan.
For more information about our company or to apply, visit www.ajboggs.com
We appreciate your interest in our organization.
