What You Will Do:
- Lead multiple Agile teams within an Agile Release Train (ART)
- Provide Agile coaching to those in the Agile teams (Product, Engineering) within the various Scrum /SAFe activities
- Partner with the Product Owner and Engineering teams for backlog refinement & prioritization of work for team backlogs
- Play an active role in PI Planning supporting multiple agile teams
- Support Release Train Engineer (RTE) w/in the ART, attending Scrum of Scrums
- Understanding / Analysis of Sprint Metrics to help facilitate team effectiveness, efficiency, maturity
- Support/Participate in RTE/Scrum Master Community of Practice (CoP)
- Facilitate unblocking impediments and tracking/managing risks, dependencies for agile teams
- Be able to drive and explain your team’s analysis to executives
- Be comfortable operating with uncertainty, know how to create order from chaos
- Build credibility and buy-in from teams without authority
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent industry experience
- 8+ years of Program Management experience in an agile software development, Software as a Service, and/or Platform as a Service
- Experience in leading multiple agile teams as a senior scrum master
- Experience with Microsoft SharePoint, Miro, Jira, Planview
Preferred Qualifications:
- SAFe 5.0 for Lean Enterprises certification/experience
- Excellent balance of interpersonal, organizational, and technical skills
- Ability to evangelize and represent a technical community
- Proven experience in leading globally distributed teams
- Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment
- SAFe Agile experience/training, Agile coach, Scrum Master experience/training/certification
- Accountable for establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness serves the Scrum Team in several ways, including:
- Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done;
- Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress
- Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
- Run and/or coach/teach Eng teams on Scrum activities - Daily Scrum, Retrospective, Demos, and Sprint Reviews
- Ability to communicate business needs to technical people and to communicate and simplify complex technical information for non-technical people
- Proven ability to negotiate and problem solve, navigating complex situations and ambiguity
- Business Analytics & Reporting skills needed for data driven decisions and team/project reporting
- Solid interpersonal skills - building trust and facilitating collaboration across all teams
- Strong relationship building/partnering skills with global cross functional teams and the ability to work with varying levels of individual contributors and management.
- Experience managing and delivering end user expectations
- Ability to motivate, inspire, and influence the team to deliver stellar products and quality
- Energetic self-starter who’s passionate about professional integrity and excellence while working with a positive, enthusiastic attitude
- Able to work independently with minimal supervision and manage multiple tasks, prioritizing time appropriately
- Ability to influence peers and managers while dealing with ambiguity – create order out of chaos
- Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
- Lead and adapt to change
