Scrum Master
Meijer
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Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Posted 6+ months ago
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The purpose of this job role is to provide leadership of Scrum activities for Agile teams within Meijer ITS. The person filling this role will work with business product owners, developers, and quality analysts to drive value delivery and will participate in all phases of Agile software development. This position provides overall business process and technical guidance, acting as a subject matter expert and leader for an Agile team..
What You'll be Doing:
This role will be held accountable to the following Key Deliverables/Responsibilities:
- Work with Product owners to create, refine and maintain product backlog
- Gain knowledge of cross functional applications and maintain documentation
- Provides leadership and high-level technical or functional consultation for new systems development and for the enhancement of existing systems.
- Alignment of teams to the Program Increment (PI) Objectives and delivery of value. Guidance for the team relating to utilization of Agile practices and how to best ensure successful self-organization.
- Ability to lead without explicit authority. Removal of impediments to the teams’ success.
- Facilitation of discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution in support of attainment of value without coercion or dictating the work to be completed.
- Support of and collaboration with the Product Owner (= business owner) with respect to grooming and maintaining the product work backlog.
- Facilitates SAFe ceremonies for the Agile team. Understands Agile principles and systems thinking.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science preferred)
- 5+ years of IT experience.
- 3+ years of experience working as a Scrum Master
- Minimum of one year of experience in a Scrum or Agile role within IT.
- 5 years performing in a developer, software engineer, application engineer or business analyst role.
- Relevant Scrum Master certification (CSM/PMI-ACP/PSM)
- SAFe for Teams certification (SA)
- Experience with the Scaled Agile (SAFe) framework
- Comprehensive knowledge of and experience with Agile process, tools, and techniques, including Program Kanban boards, User Story writing, Burndown techniques, and Retrospective facilitation.
- Proficient skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, relentless improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
- An understanding of how to apply the principles, practices, and theory of the Scrum Master role in Agile development.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
- Strong knowledge and experience in developing large systems or many smaller systems.
- Understanding and translating complex technical concepts into easy to understand business language.
- Strong leadership and team building skills. Ability to work well on cross-functional applications and Agile teams and foster team commitment to tasks
- Ability to navigate intra-team conflicts and drive resolution.
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