Hello and thank you for taking the time to read about what could be a great contract opportunity for you or someone in your network. My name is Shawn Mills and I'm the Technical Recruiter for NJ at NTT DATA Inc., NTT DATA is a leading IT services provider and global innovation partner with 80,000 professionals based in over 40 countries. NTT DATA emphasizes long-term commitment and combines global reach and local intimacy to provide premier professional services, including consulting, application services, business process and IT outsourcing, and cloud-based solutions. We’re part of NTT Group, one of the world’s largest technology services companies, generating more than $100 billion in annual revenues and partner to 80% of the Fortune 100. Visit www.nttdata.com/americasto learn how our consultants, projects, managed services, and outsourcing engagements deliver value for a wide range of businesses and government agencies.I am currently in need of a Scrum Master/Agile Coach. I appreciate any assistance you could provide, and I welcome you to pass my information along to anyone in your network.
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Location: BASKING RIDGE, NJ
The Opportunity:
Description:
- The Release Train Engineer will be responsible for leading the agile transformation and for the successful execution of one or more value streams (Release Trains) to support the delivery of strategic technology products.
- The RTE is a hybrid role that properly balances agile leadership and program management to help software development teams build and deliver solutions more efficiently.
- This role will heavily leverage the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to drive agile delivery within the release train.
- Act as a Execution lead closely partnering with the Product Manager & IT Delivery Owner to guide one agile release train
- Establish program level cadence and drive program level ceremonies (e.g. PI Planning, Product Management Council, Scrum of Scrums, release train retrospectives, HIP Sprint)
- Work with other program leaders to drive the definition and refinement of the program backlog
- Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to scrum teams and Scrum Masters
- Ensure cross-value stream coordination and collaboration
- Serve as an escalation for impediment removal for the Scrum Masters and scrum teams
- Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress and quality
- Facilitate alignment dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other Scrum Teams
- Foster a team collaborative environment that tears down silos between groups act in a single voice
- Actively contribute to the company s Agile and Lean Community through participation in the internal Agile Community of Practice and Scrum Master Forums
- Develop, coach, and mentor team members to advance their skills and career
- Provide real time feedback to the methodology team based on experiences with software delivery teams
- Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution
- Be a change agent and foster a learn by doing environment
- This position requires individuals who have previously been successful Scrum Masters and/or Agile Coaches on highly distributed teams.
- Have led Agile/Scrum adoption in the past,
- Have experience in software delivery as well as those who can drive and influence change and effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
- Applicants should have experience leading teams and people from a human resources and career development perspective as this position has potential for direct reports.
- Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
- Must be able to lead a release train and multiple teams to self-organization
- Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to both business and IT and grow to grow trust amongst partners
- Ability to partner with others to achieve goals at various levels throughout the organization and lead others to do so by example
- Must be able to communicate well with all levels of the organization from Scrum team members to executives
- Must be able to facilitate discussion at the release train level and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
- Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
- Must be impassioned and high-energy
- Must be able to lead by example and demonstrate value-add principles to agile release trains
- Ability to shift to the role or tasks needed for each situational transformation. Ability to get the job done regardless of role definition.
- Must be able to quickly gain a high level understanding of the technical and business domains of the scrum teams
- Must be able to garner respect from team and stakeholders and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done
- Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
- Must be able to analyze the entire software development environment
- 8+ years of IT experience
- 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Agile Coach
- 3+ years Project Management experience
- 2+ years of leading people from an HR perspective
- 2+ years of experience working on large scale, multiple scrum team projects
- 2+ years of experience working on mixed methodology program (Scrum interfacing with Waterfall from a dependency perspective)
- Experience acting as a Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams
- Experience with Agile Management tools (e.g. Rally, JIRA, VersionOne)
- Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
- Knowledge of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) structure and theories
- Understanding of basic fundamentals of iterative development
- Understanding of fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
- Understanding of backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
- Understanding of incremental delivery and the value of metrics
- Excellent English communication skills in written and spoken form
- Bachelor's Degree in an IT related field
- Agile / Scrum Industry Certification(s)
- SAFe Certification(s)
- Project Management Industry Certification(s)
- Lean Methodology Certification(s)
- Experience with Rally
- Experience with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) implementation and delivery
- Healthcare experience
- Experience with various Testing techniques such as Test Driven Development and Behavior driven testing.
- Experience and understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and Frameworks (service layer isolation)
- Experience and understanding of Front End User Experience and Front End Development technologies such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript
- Understanding of other processes and methodologies and ability to speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to the program/enterprise
- Understanding of the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
- Participation in industry Agile communities of practice
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401(k)
Employee Assistance Program
*benefits are available only to W2 contractors
How to apply
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Who is NTT Data?
NTT DATA is a Global IT Innovator delivering technology-enabled services and solutions to clients around the world. The company provides consulting, managed services, projects, outsourcing, and cloud-based solutions to mid-size and large enterprises in all major industries.
We operate with over 57,000 professionals in more than 35 countries with corporate headquarters in Tokyo. Every day around the world we help clients explore new ways to respond to market dynamics with flexibility and speed, reduce costs with less risk, and increase productivity to enable growth.
Specialties
Advisory Services, Application Services, Enterprise Application Services, Cloud & Infrastructure Services, Business Process Outsourcing, BI, Analytics & Performance Management, Strategic Staffing
The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. The Company will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other class protected by law. To comply with applicable laws ensuring equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability, the Company will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee unless undue hardship to the Company would result.
Shawn Mills | Technical Recruiter, Strategic Staffing | NTT DATA, Inc.| w. +(732) 362-2596
|m. + | shawn.mills@nttdata.com | www.nttdata.com/americas
90 Woodbridge Center Drive Suite 410, Woodbridge, NJ 07095
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