Senior SCRUM Master

Wesco; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Wesco is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to coordinate multiple cross-functional Agile development teams. You will serve as a servant leader, coach and mentor, removing impediments and facilitating Scrum ceremonies to deliver business value in a Scrum@Scale environment.

You will mentor teams on Lean, Agile and Scrum/Kanban ideas, work with Product Owners to align vision and backlog, and drive continuous improvement across teams. Remote work with travel to office locations is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Agile or PM related disciplines.
• 5+ years experience on a scrum team.
• 5+ years experience with lean and implementing a kaizen mindset.
• 1+ years experience in a Scaled environment (Scrum @ Scale or SAFe preferred).
• Remote work with travel to office locations as needed.

Responsibilities

• Teach and mentor multiple teams on Lean, Agile, and Scrum/Kanban principles and best practices.
• Facilitate team events that brings out the ideas of everyone on the team and ensure outcomes are achieved.
• Work with teams to implement new practices that improve delivery.
• Foster a Kaizen mindset within and outside the team.
• Help teams remove barriers and navigate organizational impediments.
• Partner with the Product Owner to align product vision and backlog.
• Co-create and refine team working agreements, definitions of ready and done, and a coaching backlog.
• Coach teams and leaders to solve their own problems and empower them to do so.
• Be a change agent and navigate organizational change using ADKAR and other methods.
• Support scaled adoption and cross-team planning and delivery synchronization.

Skills

Communication

Coaching & mentoring

Facilitation

Agile methodologies

Scrum & SAFe

Education

Bachelors Degree in Business, Agile or PM related disciplines

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Office 365

Job description

As a Senior Scrum Master you will be responsible for coordinating multiple cross-functional Agile development teams utilizing the principles and tools of the Scrum Framework. You will assume a servant leadership role to support a self-organized team to complete Scrum projects. You will identify and remove impediments to progress. You will facilitate sprint planning events, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. You will support, coach and mentor team members and facilitates collaborative interactions and events aimed at delivering business value in a Scrum @ Scale environment.

Responsibilities:

• Teach and mentor multiple teams on Lean, Agile, and Scrum/Kanban principles and best practices
• Facilitate team events that brings out the ideas of everyone on the team. Ensure the outcomes of the events are achieved
• Work with the teams to implement and create new practices that improves the team's ability to deliver better outcomes
• Foster a Kaizen mindset within and outside the team
• Help the teams remove their own barriers, leverage Scrum of Scrum's to remove barriers the team is unable to remove and challenge organizational impediments
• Partner with the Product Owner to be in sync; ensure alignment of the Product vision, goals, delivery of customer-centric products and a healthy backlog
• Works with team and Agile Coaches where necessary to co-create and refine team working agreement, definition of "ready", and definition of "done" and a coaching backlog
• Coach the team and leaders to solve their own problems and empower the team's ability to solve problems
• Be a change agent and help the teams navigate through organization change, leveraging ADKAR and other Change Management methodologies
• Participate in scaling adoption and scaled events, including cross-team planning, delivery synchronization, dependencies and systems-level inspect & adapt

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree - Business, Agile, Project Management related disciplines
• 5+ years experience on a scrum team
• 5+ years of experience with lean and implementing a kaizen mindset
• 1+ years experience working in a Scaled environment, preferable Scrum @ Scale or SAFe
• Strong communication, interpersonal, coaching, teaching and mentoring skills
• Embody the Scrum Values: Openness, Respect, Courage, Commitment and Focus
• Must have a bias for action and be comfortable in an ever changing or ambiguous environment
• Advanced credential from the Scrum Alliance, Scrum Inc, Scrum.org, or ICAgile preferred
• Tech savvy, experience with project and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro and Office 365 preferred
• Encourage an experimental and fail-fast and learning mindset preferred
• Experience working with teams applying DevSecOps capabilities to achieve delivery speed and operational stability preferred
• Experience in a scaled frameworks especially but not limited to Scrum @ Scale preferred
• Work with teams from a variety of technical domains, including but not limited to warehouse management systems, ERPs, financial systems and data-warehouses preferred
• Remote work with the ability to travel to office locations as needed
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