Scrum Master
Spectraforce
Newark, New Jersey
15 days ago
Job Description
Title: Scrum Master
Location: Newark (hybrid, 3 days a week)
Duration: 12 months, likely extensions
Are you passionate about delivering solutions? Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes extraordinary pride in the culture where digital transformation is built into client's DNA! When you join the Global Technology organization at the client, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.
Your Team
You will join a team of change agents who are responsible for coaching, teaching and guiding individuals, bringing to bear the New Way of Working agile principles, practices and frameworks. The team embodies Agile values and principles, demonstrates a servant leader mentality and has experience driving value delivery, decision making, clarity, predictability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Here is what you can expect in a typical day
• Be part of a Global Technology team that takes outstanding pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA
• Serve the Global Enterprise, including our U.S. and International business, and corporate and control partners
• Be part of an outstandingly hard-working team that embodies servant leadership and is committed to achieving client's vision to be a global leader in expanding access to investing, insurance, and retirement security
• Lay the groundwork for our next 150-years and join our future!
About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $65.00/hr.
Location: Newark (hybrid, 3 days a week)
Duration: 12 months, likely extensions
Are you passionate about delivering solutions? Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes extraordinary pride in the culture where digital transformation is built into client's DNA! When you join the Global Technology organization at the client, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.
Your Team
You will join a team of change agents who are responsible for coaching, teaching and guiding individuals, bringing to bear the New Way of Working agile principles, practices and frameworks. The team embodies Agile values and principles, demonstrates a servant leader mentality and has experience driving value delivery, decision making, clarity, predictability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Here is what you can expect in a typical day
- Ensures the team(s) lives Agile values and principles and follow the processes and practices that they agreed-upon to deliver the committed solutions
- Responsible for promoting and supporting Agile principles by helping everyone understand applied theories, practices, rules, and value
- True servant leader who serves the team(s) and larger organization
- Supports those outside the aligned team(s) to understand which of their interactions with the team(s) are effective and which aren’t; helps everyone change these interactions to improve the value built by the Agile team
- Supports all aspect of risk management and impediment resolution
Basic Qualifications
- Familiarity and expertise with Agile principles and frameworks, including story writing and estimation, facilitation, and identification and implementation of continuous improvement (CI)
- Experience working and proficiency in performing the role of Scrum Master
- Expertise in facilitation and tracking of Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), prioritization, backlog refinement, and specialty workshops.
- Proven capabilities in:
- (i) delivery
- (ii) reporting and metrics
- (iii) Agile toolchains (Jira, Jira Align, Miro, etc.)
- Certified Scrum Master certification
- Experience in serving as a Scrum Master within the financial services industry on multiple teams
• Be part of a Global Technology team that takes outstanding pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA
• Serve the Global Enterprise, including our U.S. and International business, and corporate and control partners
• Be part of an outstandingly hard-working team that embodies servant leadership and is committed to achieving client's vision to be a global leader in expanding access to investing, insurance, and retirement security
• Lay the groundwork for our next 150-years and join our future!
About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $65.00/hr.