Role : Scrum Master
Location : On-Site
State Building Name: Galvez
State Building Address: 602 N. 5th Street , Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
Note :candidates should be Local to Louisiana
client : State of Louisiana, Division of Administration Office of Technology Services (OTS)
Background: The Office of Technology Services (OTS) was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through
the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing
hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom
applications.
OTS leads the State’s technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire
organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS
suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies
Duties And Responsibilities
A servant-leader responsible for ensuring the agile teams employ agile values and principles. Scrum Master’s overall
responsibility is to drive the team toward high velocity and high-value results.
Guide and Mentor multiple teams and organization using Agile/Scrum best practices, methodologies and values.
Assess the Scrum maturity of the teams and organization and coaching the teams to higher levels of maturity, at a
pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the teams and organization.
Remove impediments or guide a team to remove impediments.
Facilitate completion of work assignments, assigning, or dictating work assignments.
Facilitate discussion, decision making, team building and conflict resolution.
Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information; supporting
product owners and project leadership to maximize return on investment (ROI) and meet the organization’s
objectives.
Support and educating the Product Owner and teams, to include, but not limited to grooming and maintaining the
product backlog.
Engage in agile delivery utilizing best agile methodology (i.e. Scrum, Kanban, etc).
Provide support to teams using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.
Facilitate all necessary team meetings in accordance with Scrum ceremonies.
Participates in all design sessions.
Performs or directs the performance of special tasks as assigned.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Business, Information Systems, or other related
discipline
Experience
Five (5) years experience in the Scrum Master role
Scrum Master certification (include copy of certificate with resume)
Identifying and building Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure program performance.
Experience with JIRA and/or Azure Dev Ops.
Creating and maintaining product timelines, status reports, communication plans, and other product
management related documentation.
- Candidates chosen for an interview will meet the Education, General Experience, and Specialized Experience
