Scrum Master

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• Weekly pay

• Scheduling flexibility

• Paid parental leave 

• Paid education assistance

• Team member discount

• Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

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.