Scrum Manager – VMEC – Battery Energy Transfer ART High Voltage Energy Transfer Controls

General Motors•Milford, MI

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Scrum Manager will perform as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Scrum Team’s content. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to gather feedback and ensure alignment with business goals and customer needs. The Scrum Manager will also collaborate with the System Architect to determine enablers and coordinate their rollout, as well as coordinate dependencies with other Scrum Managers when deliverables are dependent on other teams. This role requires maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog, translating product and feature strategy into user stories, and providing clear and concise story descriptions and acceptance criteria. The Scrum Manager will work closely with the Scrum Team Leader to ascertain team capacity and work day-to-day with the scrum teams clarifying requirements and gaining alignment around feature or product strategy. The role also involves providing guidance for system demonstration strategy, verifying stories are testable, ensuring validation and testing of features prior to End User Acceptance, and maintaining the technical integrity of the product. The Scrum Manager will accept each story, participate in team demonstrations and retrospectives, and validate that stories meet their predetermined acceptance criteria and Definition of Done (DoD). Participation in key team and program events such as Program Increment Planning, Iteration Retrospectives, ART Inspection and Adapt sessions, and SM/ART Synchronizations is also required. This position follows a Hybrid Work Policy with 3 days In-Office and 2 Days Remote, requiring the ability to report to the local office.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field of study.
Five (5) years of experience as a Software Engineer, Electrical Engineer, or related occupation.
Five (5) years of experience with MATLAB/Simulink modeling, C code or other software related tools.
Five (5) years of experience with Algorithm and software development and or calibration of vehicle motion controls.
Four (4) years of experience with CAN, LIN, or Ethernet communications protocol.
Four (4) years of experience with JIRA and Git EcoSystem.

Responsibilities

Perform as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Scrum Team’s content.
Collaborate with stakeholders to gather feedback and ensure alignment with business goals and customer needs.
Collaborate with System Architect to determine enablers and coordinate enabler rollout.
Coordinate dependencies with other Scrum Managers when deliverables are dependent on other teams for completion, attending SM synchronizations.
Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that it is visible, transparent, and understood by the team.
Work closely with Scrum Team Leader to ascertain team capacity.
Translate product and feature strategy into user stories.
Provide clear and concise story descriptions and acceptance criteria for user stories to ensure the team understands the requirements and expectations.
Work day-to-day with the scrum teams clarifying requirements, constantly communicating and gaining alignment around feature or product strategy.
Provide clearly defined acceptance criteria to enable Behavior Driven (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
Provide guidance for system demonstration strategy during story creation including unit, integration and system level test strategy.
Verify stories are testable and can be used to generate testing objectives.
Ensure validation and testing of features occurs prior to End User Acceptance.
Ensure the technical integrity of the product is maintained and enable the solution to address program priorities (Features and Enablers), thoroughly addressing anomalies and other quality concerns in a timely manner.
Accept each story and participate in team demonstrations and retrospectives to validate quality, providing feedback to team and improving team processes.
Validate that stories meet their pre-determined acceptance criteria, have appropriate, persistent acceptance tests, and otherwise comply with Definition of Done (DoD).
Participate in the following team and program events including Program Increment Planning, Iteration Retrospectives, ART Inspection and Adapt sessions, SM/ART Synchronizations.