Scrum Master

Meijer; Grand Rapids (MI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Scheduling flexibility

Paid parental leave

Paid education assistance

Team member discount

Development programs for advancement

Job summary

Meijer is seeking a Scrum Master to lead Agile teams within Meijer ITS, driving value delivery across product owners, developers, and QA. You will guide ceremonies, remove impediments, and ensure effective collaboration in a hybrid Grand Rapids office with remote work days.

The role emphasizes SAFe practices, servant leadership, strong communication, and the ability to translate complex concepts into business impact for large-scale systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience and technical training required.
• Prior experience as Scrum Master, RTE or Project Manager in Fuel, POS, or Retail required.
• Experience driving high-visibility initiatives and complex projects.
• SAFe for Teams certification (SA).
• Strong ability to manage dependencies across organization and vendors.
• 5+ years in a developer, software engineer, application engineer, or business analyst role.
• Knowledge of the Scaled Agile (SAFe) framework.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and high-level technical/functional consultation for new systems development and enhancements.
• Align teams to the Program Increment Objectives and deliver value; guide Agile practices and self-organization.
• Lead without explicit authority; remove impediments to team success.
• Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution to attain value without coercion.
• Support and collaborate with Product Owner on grooming and maintaining the backlog.
• Facilitate SAFe ceremonies and apply Agile principles and systems thinking.

Skills

Scrum Master experience

SAFe knowledge

Project management

5+ years experience

Servant leadership

Agile facilitation

Communication

Leadership

Conflict resolution

Large system development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Engineering, Organizational Management, or related discipline

Job description

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you're provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family - take care of your career and your community!

Meijer Rewards

• Weekly pay

• Scheduling flexibility

• Paid parental leave

• Paid education assistance

• Team member discount

• Development programs for advancement and career growth

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.

Position will follow our hybrid schedule: Monday-Wednesday in Grand Rapids MI corporate office, Thursday-Friday remote. Not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

What You'll be Doing:

• This role will be held accountable to the following Key Deliverables/Responsibilities:
• 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 in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Engineering, Organizational Management, or related discipline or equivalent work experience and technical training is required.
• Prior experience in a Scrum Master, RTE or Project Management Role in Fuel, POS, or Retail required
• Experience in being a key driver and enforcer on high visibility initiatives and complex projects.
• SAFe for Teams certification (SA)
• Strong skills in managing high profile projects with many complex/new integrations and many dependencies across the organization and vendors
• 5 years performing in a developer, software engineer, application engineer or business analyst role.
• Knowledge of and/or experience with the Scaled Agile (SAFe) framework.
• 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.
• Comprehensive knowledge of and experience with Agile process, tools, and techniques, including Program Kanban boards, User Story writing, Burndown techniques, and Retrospective facilitation.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
• Strong knowledge and experience in developing large systems or many smaller systems.
• Strong knowledge of Agile software development processes and techniques.
• 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 Agile teams and foster team commitment to tasks.
• Ability to navigate intra-team conflicts and drive resolution.

We opened our doors more than 90 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we're a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states. Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 270 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect. Meijer's policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team member's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully-protected classification. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of your application, please click here to submit your request. Submissions that are not seeking help to complete the application due to a disability will not be responded to.