Senior Scrum Master

Overview

Accuris, a company long-known for accelerating innovation in engineering workflows and supporting the vibrancy of the engineering community, launched in May 2023 as a standalone company. Accuris was formerly known as S&P Global’s Engineering Solutions division. The Company is valued for its standards content and workflow solutions like Engineering Workbench, Goldfire, Haystack and Parts Management Solutions.

Under its previous owners, including S&P Global, IHS and IHS Markit, Accuris has been an integral part of the engineering ecosystem for more than 60 years.

Senior Scrum Master

About Us

At Accuris, we are building software solutions that connects data in revolutionary ways, illuminating answers that were previously impossible to find and empowering our clients to envision the future, so they can determine the best course of action in the present.

Accuris electronic parts management solutions enable our customers to master challenges such as innovation imperatives, greater regulations, manufacturer consolidations, counterfeit risk and end of life concerns. With tools to access component pricing, availability, compliance, counterfeit risk, and reusability information, including the ability to integrate information into their systems, our customers can cultivate and maintain a healthy parts supply chain.

Position Summary

Accuris is seeking an adept Senior Scrum Master who will report to the Executive Director of Software Development . The primary responsibility of this position is to support the effective development and delivery of software systems/products using servant leadership and scrum methodologies for scrum teams. Incumbents in this position will partner with the Development, Infrastructure and Product Management teams for coaching on core scrum ceremonies and principals. The ideal candidate will be one who leads by example and knows how to bring out the best in people and use data driven metrics to foster relentless improvement in agile teams. As a member of E&PD, there will be opportunities and expectations to work with other Scrum Masters, the RTE and other agile leaders to facilitate and implement scrum best practices. You will present and communicate team status to the technology leaders and Executive team.

General Job Responsibilities

• Assesses Agile team-level maturity and provides recommendations for raising maturity levels.
• Manages and provides facilitation of scrum ceremonies for a suite of commercial software products across the organization.
• Facilitates and coordinates work on projects/programs by all the internal and external parties involved.
• Focuses on results and delivery.
• Performs other agile duties as required.
  
  

Specific Job Duties

• Provide coaching, mentoring, and training as required to teams and individuals supporting those teams on scrum ceremonies.
• Serve as Scrum Master for up to two Agile teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work and delivering more business value.
• Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style and lead by example. This person should be extremely knowledgeable in and personify Scrum and SAFe methodologies.
• Facilitate program increment planning, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos with their teams.
• Assess the agile maturity of the team and focus on relentless improvement to higher levels of maturity.
• Work to identify a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization and provide real-time feedback to the teams on such matters.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving.
• Will work on identifying and tracking work items and issues, identifying bottlenecks and managing risks.
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing, and report team progress to RTE.
• Strongly serve and support the Product Owner and Development Team in their quest to do everything possible to delight customers.
• Guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Work with other Scrum Masters and Agile leaders to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across the teams.
• Work closely with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams.
• Continue to grow by learning new tools and techniques
• Occasional regional travel may be required
  
  

Education / Experience

• Bachelor’s in computer science, related field or equivalent experience.
• Second-level Agile Certification (CSP, PSM II, etc.) preferred.
• Scaled Agile (SAFe) certification a plus.
• 5 years’ experience serving as Scrum Master on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of relevant agile metrics and charts (e.g. burndown, velocity, burnup, CFD) and ability to interpret them and provide appropriate guidance and coaching to the team.
  
  

delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world’s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. We think differently, combining the knowledge and resources of an established company with the unapologetic boldness of a startup. (https://www.spglobal.com/engineering/en/index.html)

Our mission: build an evolvable knowledge and data platform that enables STEM professionals to unlock and deliver innovation to the world’s most complex problems.

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