SolutionsIQ.com

ScrumMaster #14925

SolutionsIQ — 2015-11-06T10:28:21

Location: CA - San Francisco
Opportunity: A Contract position with Client
Primary Skill:
Description: ScrumMaster

Contract Position in San Francisco

If you are an experienced ScrumMaster with proven abilities to help agile teams achieve their goals and would like to be part of a rapidly growing Agile practice in an organization that is a fun place to work, we would love to talk to you. Our client is currently looking for ScrumMasters having significant experience ramping up, coaching and mentoring teams to peak productivity working in a complex inter dependent ecommerce software development environment. Candidates with experience facilitating Scrum teams in a Data Center/Infrastructure environment or software technologies.

The successful candidate will be considered a subject-matter expert in Scrum software development methodology, be an effective communicator with strong servant leadership skills, have excellent logic and problem solving skills and a drive to make a difference.

Liaison & Communication

Serve as liaison between technical and non-technical (business) departments.
Communicate with other management, developers, product managers and technical support specialists on product issues.

Facilitate Software Development

Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
Maintain process documentation.
Ensure the development teams are practicing the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Application Support

Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.

Team & Process Management

Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
Identify and remove impediments, prevents distractions to the team.
Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
Empower the team to self-organize.

General Attributes

This needs to be an individual that puts the team before themselves. They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management and constantly improving standards of work.
May act as a source for mentoring of less experienced department staff.

Qualifications: Required

Certified ScrumMaster with at least 2 + years of experience in this role post certification
Thorough understanding of Scrum software development methodology, values, practices and procedures.
Deep understanding of Agile principles and iterative development methodologies
Experience serving as a ScrumMaster for multiple teams concurrently
Experience with Kanban
Data Center/Infrastructure build-out experience is a big plus
Ability to understand technical issues and identify the means to resolving them
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines
Collaborative in driving decisions.
Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
Works smart by setting effective work goals, establishing priorities, and planning well in order to produce quality work.

Preferred

Experience with Agile transformation in an organization
Experience working with large programs that use multiple Agile teams
Hands on experience with metrics and tracking tools used in Scrum
Experience with scaling Agile in the enterprise

Agile XP .Net Developer #14921

SolutionsIQ — 2015-10-20T09:20:31

Location: WA - Seattle
Opportunity: A Contract position with Client
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

Sr. Agile XP Software Engineer

Contract Position – Seattle (SeaTac)

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to take part in driving the future of our client’s customer experience. The Scrum development teams are cross functional and ship software on a regular basis. A successful candidate will thrive in a fast paced, autonomous team environment. They will be passionate about building software the ‘right’ way and teaching that software craftsmanship mentality to others. Finally, they will enjoy the reward of delivering business value quickly while working with Product Owners to help craft their roadmaps in pieces that can be delivered in an incremental nature.

Key Responsibilities

Contribute as a Senior Developer on a Scrum delivery team, collaborating with Product Owners, Developers and Testers to deliver business value on an iterative basis.
The candidate will be writing primarily C#, swift, and some web via MVC, Angular.js, etc.
Architect, design, and develop complex, end-to-end custom, software applications
Ensure we deliver high quality software by writing clean code and utilizing pair programming, TDD, continuous integration and code reviews
Serve as a mentor and idea leader in continuously improving the team by sharing new technology/process opportunities, and best practices
Stay actively engaged in the technology industry and understand how the evolving technologies can benefit our organization

Qualifications

4+ years C# development experience required
5+ years’ experience building custom, high scale, n-tier applications required
Expertise with TDD, unit testing, pair programming and other Extreme Programming techniques required
Expertise with modern design principles (SOA, SOLID, etc.) required
Expertise in Agile/Lean development methodologies required
Expertise coaching and mentoring developers required
Excellent communication skills and proven ability to collaborate with a variety of team members

Travel & Expense Specialist (Redmond) #14920

SolutionsIQ — 2015-10-13T13:59:52

Location: WA - Redmond
Opportunity: A Permanent position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

Travel & Expense Specialist (Redmond)

SolutionsIQ is an Agile organization where we believe in personal accountability and self-empowerment. We are currently seeking an experienced and high energy Travel & Expense Specialist.

The Travel & Expense Specialist will work with a team to shepherd the expense process using Concur and Dynamics SL. The Travel & Expense Specialist must be a detail oriented individual who is an innovative and analytical thinker that is able to maintain a positive attitude during high stress and fast paced times such as monthly, quarterly and annual accounting close process.

Responsibilities:

Support our traveling consultants with questions related to travel expenses and Concur
Review and approve a high-volume of travel and expense transactions in Concur
Import all approved Concur expense reports into Dynamics SL
Reconcile all expense reports with corporate credit card transactions
Handoff accurate backup for reimbursable expenses to the Billing team
Share low volume of AP responsibilities with the team
Ability to identify situations that require escalation
Able to think quickly, assess a situation and make a sound decision
Contribute to the overall success of SolutionsIQ by identifying ways to improve employee's reimbursement process

Qualifications:

Required: 2-3 years of experience in Accounting or Accounts Payable
Required: Strong Excel skills
Preferred: 2-3 years working with travel expense and/or Concur

Agile Enterprise Coach - Baltimore #14915

SolutionsIQ — 2015-10-07T13:24:48

Location: MD - Timonium
Opportunity: A Contract position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description:

Agile Coach - Enterprise

Contract role in Baltimore (Timonium)

Responsibilities:

While in this role, you will act as a Coach for multiple teams that are using Agile methodologies but need coaching to help them work as a high performance team. Candidates must be excellent listeners, possess outstanding facilitation and conflict-resolutions skills, and the ability to work in collaborative environments. Work with leadership within business units as part of Agile transformation.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience
Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 6+ years of relevant experience and 2 years of Scrum Master experience; must have at least four years of full time Agile coaching expeerience.
Experience as an Agile Coach with a successful track record of helping to implement Agile methods and techniques, experience in facilitating organizational and cultural change, and experience in the implementation and execution of Scrum in an environment where individuals are unfamiliar with the methodology.
Experience working at the program level as part of an Agile transformation.
Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle and of several software development methodologies
Experience with processes and tools supporting Agile methodologies
Experience coaching and mentoring a team(s) to their highest potential
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
Ability to understand technical issues
Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
Collaborative approach to decision-making on teams
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail
Local to San Jose area

Additional Skills Desired:

Experienced software developer or software tester, especially in an Agile environment
Experience with Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Software Development and other Agile methodologies is a plus
Outstanding presentation and public speaking skills.
Experience leading organizational change management
Experience developing and growing business with new and existing accounts in a deliberate and strategic manner.
Experience designing and deploying methodologies in many types of organizations

Personal Characteristics:

A predisposition to patience and tolerance.
Must be comfortable challenging change management scenarios, knowing when to insert yourself and when to fade back.
Must be extraordinarily articulate, persuasive, and comfortable interacting with all levels of customers, from line developer to C/VP level.
Effective and collaborative team member.

Agile Coach II - McLean, VA #14912

SolutionsIQ — 2015-09-29T13:25:45

Location: VA - McLean
Opportunity: A Contract position with Client
Primary Skill:
Description:

Agile Coach

Contract position in McLean, VA

Is your coaching preference to work with individuals and teams on their process — improving their success as a team and their effectiveness with Agile and Scrum? SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for Agile Coaches.

Requirements:

Provides Agile process and technical direction to new and existing ScrumMasters
Serve as a ScrumMaster while coaching other ScrumMasters
Serves as subject matter expert on Agile development methods and processes
Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing
Provide instruction and training to software development teams in the area of Agile software principles
Facilitate sprint planning and retrospective
Assist the Product Owner with keeping the backlog groomed
Ensure cross-team coordination
Provides clear concise communication with project team members
Strong vertical and horizontal communication skills

Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree or combination of relevant education and experience
History of coaching and supporting senior leadership of an organization
Must be a certified ScrumMaster with at least two years of SM experience and 2+ years of experience as an Agile Coach
Ability to coach and mentor individuals and teams to reach their highest potential
Experience with processes and tools supporting Agile methodologies
Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews and retrospectives
Ability to understand technical issues including knowledge of XP
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with diverse personality types
Exceptional communication, organization and time management skills
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail
Financial services experience preferred

Agile Technical Coach-Hanover, MD #14907

SolutionsIQ — 2015-09-08T11:51:02

Location: MD - Hanover
Opportunity: A Contract position with Client
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

Agile Technical Coach – Software Engineering

Contract position in the Baltimore area

Ideal candidates are experienced Agile developers with the experience to introduce pair programming, test driven development, continuous integration and other technical practices by working side-by-side with developers.

Responsibilities:

Candidates must be excellent listeners, possess outstanding facilitation and conflict-resolutions skills, and the ability to work in collaborative environments. The candidate will be selected based on their ability to function as a consultant, developer, trainer, and coach, although those in this role may frequently be involved in typical project delivery roles.
Qualifications:

Technical skills:

10 years or more experience in technology/software organizations
Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle and of several software development methodologies. Experience with Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Software Development and other Agile methodologies is a plus
Senior-level skills in systems architecture, design, development, and programming in object-oriented and relational databases and client server platforms
Participate in pair programming with other developers
Experienced at mentoring other developers
Experience in leading technical teams; skills as coach and consultant to development organizations
Experienced software developer or software tester, especially in an Agile environment

Other qualifications:

Technical or Business degree
Certified ScrumMaster; Experience as a working ScrumMaster
Experience with processes and tools supporting Agile methodologies
Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives

Additional Skills Desired:

Previous consulting experience

Personal Characteristics:.

Must be articulate, persuasive, and comfortable interacting with all levels of customers, from line developer to C/VP level.
Effective and collaborative team member.

ScrumMaster #14901

SolutionsIQ — 2015-09-02T10:46:41

Location: WA - Seattle
Opportunity: A Permanent position with Client
Primary Skill:
Description:

ScrumMaster

Perm position in SeaTac, WA

The ScrumMaster is a key role in Agile software development responsible for ensuring that Scrum practices and processes are followed by the team. The ScrumMaster serves as the liaison between the business (represented by the Product Owner) and the Agile software development team. This role helps the team reach peak productivity, coaches and mentors resources, resolves impediments that block a team and help track their progress. The ScrumMaster also plays a critical role in the adoption of Scrum and other Agile development practices by the organization.

If you are an experienced ScrumMaster with proven abilities to help agile teams achieve their goals and would like to be part of a rapidly growing Agile practice in an organization that is a fun place to work, we would love to talk to you. Our client is currently looking for ScrumMasters having significant experience ramping up, coaching and mentoring teams to peak productivity working in a complex inter dependent ecommerce software development environment. Candidates with experience facilitating Scrum teams in an ecommerce environment or software technologies associated with retail businesses would be a good fit.

Liaison & Communication

Serve as liaison between technical and non-technical (business) departments.
Communicate with other management, developers, product managers and technical support specialists on product issues.

Facilitate Software Development

Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
Maintain process documentation.
Ensure the development teams are practicing the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Application Support

Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.

Team & Process Management

Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
Identify and remove impediments, prevents distractions to the team.
Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
Empower the team to self-organize.

General Attributes

This needs to be an individual that puts the team before themselves. They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management and constantly improving standards of work.
May act as a source for mentoring of less experienced department staff.

Qualifications: Required

Four-year college diploma or university degree in computer systems design or computer science, and/or 10 years equivalent work experience
Certified ScrumMaster with at least 2 + years of experience in this role post certification
5+ years’ experience as a project leader
5+ years’ experience on a software development team in any capacity, with thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle.
Thorough understanding of Scrum software development methodology, values, practices and procedures.
Deep understanding of Agile principles and iterative development methodologies
Familiarity with Ecommerce and Web based software development
Ability to understand technical issues and identify the means to resolving them
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines
Collaborative in driving decisions.
Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
Works smart by setting effective work goals, establishing priorities, and planning well in order to produce quality work.

Preferred

Experience with Agile transformation in an organization
Experience working with large programs that use multiple Agile teams
Hands on experience with metrics and tracking tools used in Scrum
Experience with scaling Agile in the enterprise

Senior Development Manager - Los Angeles #14876

SolutionsIQ — 2015-07-20T14:46:39

Location: CA - Los Angeles
Opportunity: A Contract-to-Hire position with Client
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

Senior Development Manager

Contract to Perm or Direct Hire in Los Angeles, CA

As Senior Agile Coach/Development Manager, you’ll improve and streamline the game development process for an autonomous group of highly aligned teams; keeping projects on-track, teams healthy and stakeholders informed. Through your experience in Agile servant leadership and team building, your humble confidence and social prowess with just the right tinge of humor you will coach and grow healthy, cohesive, empowered and autonomous Agile teams. You will partner with Product Owners and or Project Leads to foster an open, transparent development environment that keeps stakeholders in the loop through proactive reporting and effective cross-team chat; and facilitate accountability within teams and organization.

You Are and Have:

At least 4 years of experience in working with teams in an Agile environment as a Producer, Agile Coach, ScrumMaster, Project Manager, Development Manager or Engineering Manager reliably delivering value to your organization and players or customers.
Dev Guru: you’re fluent in and avid advocate of development best practices, including Scrum, Kanban and Lean Product Management. You have the ability to teach, mentor, and coach the principles and practices as well as leading by example by flexing the strong tools in your process steward’s toolbox and know which one works best in a given situation
Systems Thinking: you take a holistic systems thinking view of the product development lifecycle and adapt processes accordingly
A perfectionist to a fault: you obsess over even the smallest details and are a firm believer in “broken window” theory - sloppiness in details leads to quick deterioration of the entire system. Your verbal and written communication is akin to a laser-guided tracer bullet - clear and precise. If the dictionaries used pictures to define words, your photo would be next to “industrious”.
Honest, self-aware and emotionally intelligent leader: you know what drives you and other people; you notice, understand and respect team’s emotions and can navigate them with grace. You are unafraid of healthy conflict - you’d rather have an open conversation about problems than let bad feelings fester. You know when to push a subject and when to let it go. Integrity is not just a buzz-word to you - it’s a central part of your character.
A mindful manager: hiring, mentoring, giving direct feedback, personal development and training is not new to you and is an area where you strive to excel
A motivational mentor: you work with teams, leading by example; you keep teams focused on results, growth and actionable feedback. The teams you’ve worked with in the past have only great things to say about you, as they felt enriched and empowered by your work.
A maniacal gamer: your decisions are always player-focused because you’re a player too - you’re no stranger to late-night smackdowns on Summoner’s Rift

You Will:

Orchestrate the development efforts of a group of autonomous and highly aligned development teams
Coach teams, development leads, product owners towards stronger team cohesion and Agile adoption
Seek to understand systemic problems and challenges and drive improvement initiatives across multiple teams
Introduce and advocate across a group of teams best technical practices and standards for game development
Regularly assess the development team´s maturity, health and composition and relentlessly strive for cohesion gains across the board.
Refine development practices utilizing your experience with agile methodologies
Use Jira Agile™ and Confluence® to establish software and game development schedules.
Create transparency and predictability via story mapping, roadmaps, sprint plans, burn-downs, value stream maps and release summary reports
Ensure that backlogs stay organized and work with development teams to keep them on point with the latest priorities
Define a mission statement, strategies, best practices and KPIs for the development management track
For direct hire some relocation expenses will be provided

Agile Consulting Coach - New York/New Jersey #14845

SolutionsIQ — 2015-05-11T14:12:54

Location: WA - Redmond
Opportunity: A Permanent position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

Agile Consulting Coach

FTE role in New York/New Jersey Area

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience
Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 5+ years of relevant experience and 2 years of Scrum Master experience
Experience as an Agile Coach with a successful track record of helping to implement Agile methods and techniques, experience in facilitating organizational and cultural change, and experience in the implementation and execution of Scrum in an environment where individuals are unfamiliar with the methodology.
Ability to lead engagements and provide ad-hoc client consulting
Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle and of several software development methodologies
Experience with processes and tools supporting Agile methodologies
Experience coaching and mentoring a team(s) to their highest potential
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
Ability to understand technical issues
Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
Collaborative approach to decision-making on teams
Local to San Jose area. Occasional travel outside of the Bay area
Experienced software developer or software tester, especially in an Agile environment
Experience with Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Software Development and other Agile methodologies is a plus
Outstanding presentation and public speaking skills.
Experience leading organizational change management
Experience developing and growing business with new and existing accounts in a deliberate and strategic manner.
Experience designing and deploying methodologies in many types of organizations

Personal Characteristics:

A predisposition to patience and tolerance.
Must be comfortable challenging change management scenarios, knowing when to insert yourself and when to fade back.
Must be extraordinarily articulate, persuasive, and comfortable interacting with all levels of customers, from line developer to C/VP level.
Effective and collaborative team member.

As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?
When we ask our employees this same question, they explain that the best part about working at SolutionsIQ is the opportunity to collaborate daily with an outstanding group of Agile experts from a diverse set of backgrounds. We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. We provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers. These software development projects are a laboratory for our Agile consultancy. We encourage our Agile practitioners to participate as students and as thought leaders in the Agile community.

Agile Coach - Culver City, CA #14814

SolutionsIQ — 2015-03-26T14:47:09

Location: CA - Culver City
Opportunity: A Contract position with Client
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

Agile Coach

Contract Position in Culver City, CA

Responsibilities:

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience
Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 5+ years of Agile experience including 2+ years as a Scrum Master
At least 2 years of experience as an Agile Coach with a successful track record of helping to implement Agile methods and techniques, experience in facilitating organizational and cultural change, and experience in the implementation and execution of Scrum in an environment where individuals are unfamiliar with the methodology.
Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle and of several software development methodologies
Experience with processes and tools supporting Agile methodologies
Experience coaching and mentoring a team(s) to their highest potential
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
Ability to understand technical issues
Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
Collaborative approach to decision-making on teams
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail

Additional Skills Desired:

Experienced software developer or software tester, especially in an Agile environment
Experience with Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Software Development and other Agile methodologies is a plus
Outstanding presentation and public speaking skills.
Experience leading organizational change management
Experience developing and growing business with new and existing accounts in a deliberate and strategic manner.
Experience designing and deploying methodologies in many types of organizations

Personal Characteristics:

A predisposition to patience and tolerance.
Must be comfortable challenging change management scenarios, knowing when to insert yourself and when to fade back.
Must be extraordinarily articulate, persuasive, and comfortable interacting with all levels of customers, from line developer to C/VP level.
Effective and collaborative team member.

Agile Consulting Coach - San Jose #14739

SolutionsIQ — 2014-09-24T10:54:23

Location: CA - San Jose
Opportunity: A Permanent position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

Agile Consulting Coach- San Jose
FTE role in San Jose

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience
Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 5+ years of relevant experience and 2 years of Scrum Master experience
Experience as an Agile Coach with a successful track record of helping to implement Agile methods and techniques, experience in facilitating organizational and cultural change, and experience in the implementation and execution of Scrum in an environment where individuals are unfamiliar with the methodology.
Ability to lead engagements and provide ad-hoc client consulting
Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle and of several software development methodologies
Experience with processes and tools supporting Agile methodologies
Experience coaching and mentoring a team(s) to their highest potential
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
Ability to understand technical issues
Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
Collaborative approach to decision-making on teams
Local to San Jose area. Occasional travel outside of the Bay area
Experienced software developer or software tester, especially in an Agile environment
Experience with Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Software Development and other Agile methodologies is a plus
Outstanding presentation and public speaking skills.
Experience leading organizational change management
Experience developing and growing business with new and existing accounts in a deliberate and strategic manner.
Experience designing and deploying methodologies in many types of organizations

Personal Characteristics:

A predisposition to patience and tolerance.
Must be comfortable challenging change management scenarios, knowing when to insert yourself and when to fade back.
Must be extraordinarily articulate, persuasive, and comfortable interacting with all levels of customers, from line developer to C/VP level.
Effective and collaborative team member.

Certified Scrum Trainer #14736

SolutionsIQ — 2014-09-19T10:43:06

Location: WA - Redmond
Opportunity: A Contract-to-Hire position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

Agile Practitioner and Trainer

SolutionsIQ is seeking an outstanding Agile Trainer who knows how to work with a team of skilled colleagues in an employee-focused, fast-moving agile company. The right candidate will be a Certified Scrum Trainer© (Scrum Alliance) who is passionate about Agile, communication, group dynamics, and enabling breakthrough learning experiences with customers. We are looking for someone who is not afraid to raise issues and who will be able to drive change and remove impediments at the team and organization level. This position requires the ability to travel up to 100% nationally. International travel may be an occasional opportunity.

Principal Responsibilities

Deliver live training events to target audiences of experienced software managers, software engineers and project managers. These events must be well prepared, be relevant to the abilities of the audience, and most importantly, effectively deliver the intended results.
Ability to mentor on ways to tailor Agile techniques to suit varying requirements, situations, and constraints
Facilitate learning through workshops, meetings, and team-building activities.
Develop a training curriculum, training slides, exercises, quizzes, and other training aids.
Train course participants consistent with the Scrum Alliance course learning objectives
Collaborate with internal team to plan training schedules with due consideration of available training capacity and ensure that these schedules will support the completion of public course schedules and private client requirements on schedule and with high quality.
Communicate effectively to internal audiences the status of course development, readiness, schedules and client progress.
For private client courses, pair with sales staff as a subject matter expert and to address learning objectives of the client.
Maintain subject matter expertise through ongoing learning and personal development.
Meet or exceed established course feedback / satisfaction scores.

Required Qualifications / Skills

Is a Certified Scrum Trainer with the Scrum Alliance.
Two full years of experience as a ScrumMaster.
Substantive experience as an Agile Practitioner working to deliver many large software products / projects. Substantive experience working on software projects that had complex functional requirements, time-sensitive schedules and diverse stakeholder communities.
Additional in-depth experience using the more general Agile techniques, including test-driven development, continuous integration, pair programming, refactoring, and cross-functional teams.
Minimum of two full years of experience as a formal training instructor, training experienced software practitioners in the use of Agile methodology and techniques.
Skilled at differing training modalities including experiential exercises, learning games, simulations, process miniatures, self-paced learning.
Experience planning, preparing, and delivering training in a structured environment, including an agenda, schedule, objectives, training aids, class exercises, and class discussion periods.

Desired Skills

Experience working as a Scrum Product Owner
Highly polished presentation skills, both in planning and delivery
Experience in recommending, presenting, and documenting possible innovations in techniques and practices applicable to Agile, the Scrum roles, organizational change, individual change, facilitated learning, leadership, etc.

Education and Years of Experience

Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of work experience related to development and maintenance of software products and /or information systems
Master’s degree may be substituted for three years of experience
At least five years of direct experience using Agile techniques in software development. The five years of experience should include experience the pragmatic application of generally accepted Agile techniques to real-world situations to suit varying requirements, conditions and constraints.
Must act at all times in accordance with the Code of Ethics and Business Practice Guidelines established by the Scrum Alliance https://www.scrumalliance.org/code-of-ethics.
Must maintain ability to hold certification as Certified Scrum Trainer with the Scrum Alliance.

Agile Extreme Programmer (XP) Developer #14723

SolutionsIQ — 2014-08-27T09:16:24

Location: WA - Redmond
Opportunity: A Contract-to-Hire position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description:

SolutionsIQ Agile XP Developer

Redmond, WA

Contract/Contract to Perm/Perm-Nationwide

SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for Java Developers to support our growing customer base. This individual will work at SolutionsIQ as part of a team developing an application for one of our major clients. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, interest in technical practices, and will have worked in an Agile/Scrum environment with Extreme Programming (XP) practices.

Responsibilities:

Analyze, code, test, and document new functionality and fixes for defects in software applications.
Redesign existing systems for improved performance, reliability, or functionality.
Create, modify, and validate databases.
Work with other disciplines (Test, PM, Operations) and partner teams to gather and prioritize requirements.
Work with the team to estimate new work.

Qualifications:
General

Experience in the development of complex SQL queries
Excellent communication skills
Excellent command of the IDE
Experience with SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) application design and development
Experience in an Agile/Scrum environment desired
Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
Experience in paired programming.
Ability and willigness to travel to client's sites to coach and be an embedded developer on XP practices.

Java

5+ plus years of Java programming experience
5+ years of object-oriented (OO) development and design
UI development experience with JSP, HTML, and JavaScript
Experience writing and consuming SOAP and REST services
Experience with Spring and Hibernate
Experience with JUnit/TestNG

About SolutionsIQ

With more than 30 years of experience, SolutionsIQ has a deep understanding of software delivery excellence. A leading provider of Agile consulting, certified training, coaching, development, and talent acquisition services, the company is uniquely equipped to help organizations leverage Agile project management and software development methods to deliver solutions more reliably with less risk and at lower cost. SolutionsIQ helps its international client base navigate complex cross-functional changes – increasing Agile competencies at the individual, team, and enterprise level – and gives them the tools and collaboration they need to succeed.

Java Developer - Agile EIP #14661

SolutionsIQ — 2014-02-24T13:21:37

Location: WA - Redmond
Opportunity: A Contract position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

Java Developer Agile/Scrum

Location: Redmond, WA

Position Summary

The selected Java Developer will be working at SolutionsIQ in Redmond/Seattle WA as part of a team developing an application for one of our major clients. Beyond strong Java skills the selected candidate will have excellent communication skills and will have worked in an Agile/Scrum or paired programming environment. This is an excellent opportunity to learn development in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Responsibilities

Analyze, develop, unit test, and document new functionality and fixes for defects in software products
Redesign existing systems for improved performance, reliability, or functionality
Modify and test database schemas and stored procedures

Key Experience

Seven plus years Java
Seven plus years OO development and design
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UI Development experience with JSP and HTML Web Services. Generating web service Java mappings from a WSDL file, generating WSDL file from Java object annotations (Codehaus XFire or Apache CXF technologies experience a big plus).
Spring
Hibernate
Development of complex queries or PL/SQL with Oracle
Agile/Scrum
Paired programming
Excellent communication skills

Experience in several of the following is a plus:

JUnit
Ajax
Ant
Maven
CMS (Content Management Systems such as Alfresco, Liferay)
Tomcat
Eclipse

SolutionsIQ ScrumMaster #14611

SolutionsIQ — 2013-10-08T11:48:50

Location: WA - Redmond
Opportunity: A Permanent position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

SolutionsIQ ScrumMaster

Contract/Contract to Perm/Perm-Nationwide

Are you passionate about helping software development teams collaborate and deliver? SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for ScrumMasters to join our team nationwide.

Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban, and we provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers.

This role serves as a liaison between technical and non-technical departments, and communicates with other management, developers, product managers, and technical support specialists on product issues. The ideal candidate is experienced with both Scrum and traditional project management practices.

Responsibilities:

Support the product development process:

Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
Maintain process documentation.
Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles.

Support the Product Owner:

Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.

Support the product team:

Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
Empower the team to self-organize.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience.
Must be a Certified ScrumMaster with 5+ years of project management experience and 2 years of ScrumMaster experience.
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
A thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential.
Collaborative approach to driving decisions.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.

Personal Characteristics:

Passion to proactively seek ways to improve processes.
Self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position and ability to constructively resolve problems.
Creative, resourceful, and innovative at tackling complex challenges.
Demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and skills and readily adopting new technologies.
Respectful, professional interpersonal working style.

As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?

When we ask our employees this same question, they explain that the best part about working at SolutionsIQ is the opportunity to collaborate daily with an outstanding group of Agile experts from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. From the day we began using Agile practices in 2004, our commitment has steadily grown. We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. We provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers. These software development projects are a laboratory for our Agile consultancy. We encourage our Agile practitioners to participate as students and as thought leaders in the Agile community.

Agile Coach – Software Process (Scrum, Lean) #14609

SolutionsIQ — 2013-10-08T11:47:25

Location: WA - Redmond
Opportunity: A Contract position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description:

Agile Coach – Software Process (Scrum, Lean)

Contract/Contract to Perm/Perm-Nationwide and/or International

Ideal candidates are expert practitioners of Scrum and Lean who are passionate about building successful, collaborative teams through facilitation, coaching and mentoring.

Responsibilities:

This position offers opportunities to travel, work with a variety of clients, experience full-time Agile projects, and to learn from leaders in the Agile community. Engagements are anything but typical—consulting assignments will vary from fulfilling the role of ScrumMaster for a novice team, advising a busy Product Owner, developing software with a team, delivering training courses, documenting consulting deliverables, mentoring a team on Agile practices that will take them to the next level, and other similar activities. Often you’ll work with a team for a number of days, while other times you’ll immerse yourself at a customer for a longer duration.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience
Must be a Certified ScrumMaster with 5+ years of project management experience and 2 years of ScrumMaster experience
Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle and of several software development methodologies
Experience with processes and tools supporting Agile methodologies
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
Ability to understand technical issues
Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
Ability to coach and mentor the team to reach their highest potential
Collaborative approach to decision-making on teams
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail
A willingness to travel 100%

Additional Skills Desired:

Experienced software developer or software tester, especially in an Agile environment
Experience with Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Software Development and other Agile methodologies is a plus
Outstanding presentation and public speaking skills.
Experience conducting stand-up training
Experience developing training materials
Experience leading organizational change management
Experience developing and growing business with new and existing accounts in a deliberate and strategic manner.
Experience designing and deploying methodologies in many types of organizations

Personal Characteristics:

A predisposition to patience and tolerance.
Must be comfortable and articulate in challenging change management scenarios, knowing when to insert self and when to fade back.
Must be extraordinarily articulate, persuasive, and comfortable interacting with all levels of customers, from line developer to C/VP level.
Effective and collaborative team member.

As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?

Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. From the day we began using Agile practices in 2004, our commitment has steadily grown. Today we use Agile in running the entire company--“we practice what we preach!” We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. We provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers. These software development projects are a laboratory for our Agile consultancy. We encourage our Agile practitioners to participate as students and as thought leaders in the Agile community.

Agile Coach – Software Engineering (Extreme Programming practices) #14608

SolutionsIQ — 2013-10-08T11:46:51

Location: WA - Redmond
Opportunity: A Permanent position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description:

Agile Coach – Software Engineering (Extreme Programming)

Contract/Contract to Perm/Perm-Nationwide and/or International

Is your coaching preference to work with individuals and teams on improving their technical practices? SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for Agile Coaches.

Ideal candidates are experienced Agile developers with the experience to introduce pair programming, test driven development, continuous integration and other technical practices by working side-by-side with developers.

Responsibilities:

Qualifications:
Technical skills:

10 years or more experience in technology/software organizations
Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle and of several software development methodologies. Experience with Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Software Development and other Agile methodologies is a plus
Senior-level skills in systems architecture, design, development, and programming in object-oriented and relational databases and client server platforms
Participate in pair programming with other developers
Experienced at mentoring other developers
Experience in leading technical teams; skills as coach and consultant to development organizations
Experienced software developer or software tester, especially in an Agile environment

Other qualifications:

Technical or Business degree
Certified ScrumMaster; Experience as a working ScrumMaster
Experience with processes and tools supporting Agile methodologies
Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives
A willingness to travel 100%

Additional Skills Desired:

Outstanding presentation and public speaking skills
Experience conducting stand-up training
Experience developing training materials
Experience leading organizational change management
Experience developing and growing business with new and existing accounts in a deliberate and strategic manner
Experience designing and deploying methodologies in many types of organizations

Personal Characteristics:

A predisposition to patience and tolerance.

Must be comfortable and articulate in challenging change management scenarios, knowing when to insert self and when to fade back.

Must be extraordinarily articulate, persuasive, and comfortable interacting with all levels of customers, from line developer to C/VP level.

Effective and collaborative team member.

As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?

SolutionsIQ Agile XP Developer #14607

SolutionsIQ — 2013-10-08T11:45:41

Location: WA - Redmond
Opportunity: A Contract position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

SolutionsIQ Agile XP Developer

Contract/Contract to Perm/Perm-Nationwide

SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for Java and .NET developers to support our growing customer base. This individual will work at SolutionsIQ as part of a team developing an application for one of our major clients. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, interest in technical practices, and will have worked in an Agile/Scrum environment. This is an excellent opportunity to learn development Extreme Programming (XP) practices.

Responsibilities:

Analyze, code, test, and document new functionality and fixes for defects in software applications.
Redesign existing systems for improved performance, reliability, or functionality.
Create, modify, and validate databases.
Work with other disciplines (Test, PM, Operations) and partner teams to gather and prioritize requirements.
Work with the team to estimate new work.

Qualifications:
General

Experience in the development of complex SQL queries
Excellent communication skills
Excellent command of the IDE
Experience with SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) application design and development
Experience in an Agile/Scrum environment desired
Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
Experience in paired programming desired

Java

5+ plus years of Java programming experience
5+ years of object-oriented (OO) development and design
UI development experience with JSP, HTML, and JavaScript
Experience writing and consuming SOAP and REST services
Experience with Spring and Hibernate
Experience with JUnit/TestNG

.NET

5+ years of design and development experience in enterprise applications
5+ years of strong experience with C# and the .NET Framework
Experience with NHibernate
Experience with WPF, WCF and Web services
Experience with NUnit

Senior Agile Coach - San Jose #14540

SolutionsIQ — 2013-02-28T14:26:43

Location: CA - San Jose
Opportunity: A Contract position with SolutionsIQ
Primary Skill:
Description: Untitled 1

Senior Agile Coach

Contract role in San Jose

Responsibilities:

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience
Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 6+ years of relevant experience and 2 years of Scrum Master experience; must have at least four years of full time Agile coaching expeerience.
Experience as an Agile Coach with a successful track record of helping to implement Agile methods and techniques, experience in facilitating organizational and cultural change, and experience in the implementation and execution of Scrum in an environment where individuals are unfamiliar with the methodology.
Experience working at the program level as part of an Agile transformation.
Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle and of several software development methodologies
Experience with processes and tools supporting Agile methodologies
Experience coaching and mentoring a team(s) to their highest potential
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
Ability to understand technical issues
Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
Collaborative approach to decision-making on teams
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail
Local to San Jose area

Additional Skills Desired:

Experienced software developer or software tester, especially in an Agile environment
Experience with Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Software Development and other Agile methodologies is a plus
Outstanding presentation and public speaking skills.
Experience leading organizational change management
Experience developing and growing business with new and existing accounts in a deliberate and strategic manner.
Experience designing and deploying methodologies in many types of organizations

Personal Characteristics:

A predisposition to patience and tolerance.
Must be comfortable challenging change management scenarios, knowing when to insert yourself and when to fade back.
Must be extraordinarily articulate, persuasive, and comfortable interacting with all levels of customers, from line developer to C/VP level.
Effective and collaborative team member.