Job Description
Titles: MES Scrum Master / Program Manager
Location & Reporting Address: Parsippany, NJ 07054 (Hybrid)
Duration: 6 months
Minimum years of experience required: 10 years
Must Have Skills:
Nice to Have Skills:
Key Responsibilities
Required Experience and Skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Location & Reporting Address: Parsippany, NJ 07054 (Hybrid)
Duration: 6 months
Minimum years of experience required: 10 years
Must Have Skills:
- MES
- Scrum Master
- Program Manager
Nice to Have Skills:
- MES Integration
- Troubleshooting
Key Responsibilities
- Agile Delivery and Facilitation
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including:
- Daily stand-ups
- Sprint planning
- Sprint reviews
- Sprint retrospectives
- Lead teams working within Agile and Waterfall project management frameworks.
- Promote the effective adoption of Agile practices across delivery and support teams.
- Identify and remove impediments affecting team progress.
- Foster continuous improvement across team processes and delivery practices.
- Jira, Confluence and Work Management
- Build, maintain, and optimize Jira boards and dashboards.
- Monitor support boards daily and follow up with team members on pending activities.
- Ensure tasks and tickets are correctly assigned, labelled, and maintained in the appropriate workflow status.
- Manage and improve Jira workflows and support boards to enable effective Agile execution.
- Maintain relevant Confluence documentation supporting project and Agile processes.
- Ensure boards remain organized and tickets are addressed in a timely manner.
- Coaching and Continuous Improvement
- Coach and mentor team members and stakeholders on Agile principles.
- Provide guidance on Jira and Confluence best practices.
- Identify process pain points and anti-patterns.
- Work collaboratively with teams and stakeholders to refine or redefine processes where required.
- Encourage accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement within the team.
- Stakeholder and Cross-Team Coordination
- Collaborate with Product Owners, developers, support teams, and other stakeholders to enable clear communication and delivery of project goals.
- Coordinate activities across teams with competing or conflicting priorities.
- Follow up with team members to ensure actions and delivery commitments are progressing.
- Support issue resolution through appropriate stakeholder engagement and escalation.
- Maintain effective communication across implementation and steady-state support activities.
- Metrics, Risks and Change Management
- Track and report Agile delivery metrics to stakeholders.
- Provide visibility into progress, impediments, risks, and dependencies.
- Support project risk identification and mitigation.
- Support change management activities within projects.
- Help minimize delivery impact arising from process changes, delayed reviews, unavailable stakeholders, or competing priorities.
Required Experience and Skills
- Minimum 10 years of overall IT experience
- Strong experience working as a Scrum Master in enterprise delivery environments.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and supporting cross-functional teams.
- Practical experience leading teams using both Agile and Waterfall project management frameworks.
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Jira boards and dashboards
- Jira workflows
- Support boards
- Confluence documentation
- Agile metrics and reporting
- Experience working with Product Owners, developers, application support teams, business stakeholders, and SMEs.
- Strong understanding of impediment management, risk mitigation, change management, and delivery coordination.
- Ability to identify process inefficiencies, pain points, and anti-patterns.
- Strong facilitation, coaching, mentoring, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification.
- Experience supporting MES, manufacturing, life sciences, or regulated enterprise environments.
- Knowledge of Kanban and application support delivery models.
- Experience coordinating globally distributed or cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with software development lifecycle and enterprise lifecycle processes.
- Exposure to release management, dependency management, and governance reporting.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Parsippany, NJ |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1998 |
| Website | www.eteaminc.com |
About Company
Looking for a great job? Join eTeam. We’re looking for talented staffing professionals to join our staff. We also provide contract assignments and full-time jobs at Fortune 2000 Companies. We’ve been named one of the best companies to work for by Staffing Industry Analysts and New Jersey Business.
Skills
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Atlassian JIRAunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Certified ScrumMasterunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Coachingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Kanbanunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- People Managementunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Release Management/Engineeringunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- ScrumMasterunmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
- Sprint Planningunmatched
- Sprint Retrospectiveunmatched
- Standup Meetingsunmatched
- Support Documentationunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Waterfall Model of Software Developmentunmatched
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