Overview
Job DescriptionAs a Scrum Master you will coordinate a cross-functional Agile development team 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 at Scale environment.
Responsibilities
- Teach and mentor 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 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
- Bachelor's degree required in Business, Agile, Project Management related disciplines.
- 3+ years of prior experience on a Scrum Team.
- 3+ years experience with Lean and implementing a Kaizen mindset.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, coaching, teaching and mentoring skills.
- Must have a bias for action and be comfortable in an ever changing or ambiguous environment.
- Embody the Scrum Values: Openness, Respect, Courage, Commitment and Focus.
- Ability to create and sustain an environment of psychological safety and trust among team members and between the team and the larger organization.
- A 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
At Wesco, we build, connect, power and protect the world. As a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, we create a world that you can depend on.
Our Company’s greatest asset is our people. Wesco is committed to fostering a workplace where every individual is respected, valued, and empowered to succeed. We promote a culture that is grounded in teamwork and respect. With a workforce of over 20,000 people worldwide, we embrace the unique perspectives each person brings. Through comprehensive benefits and active community engagement, we create an environment where every team member has the opportunity to thrive.
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