Scrum Master/Product Owner

Caterpillar•Irving, TX

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it. Help Build the Future of Caterpillar At Caterpillar, technology always has a purpose, which is to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. Through Cat Technology, we are solving problems by building the intelligence layer that connects machines, data, and people to make jobsites safer, more productive, and more sustainable. By combining deep domain expertise in physical systems with software, connectivity, autonomy, and AI, we deliver solutions that work in the real world—on real jobsites, at global scale. You’ll build and deploy against one of the most unique data foundations—over 1.6 million connected assets generating real-world data daily. These data and platform capabilities are enabling the development of AI models, edge computing architectures, and software systems that scale across fleets, products, and industries. The result will be a new generation of machines that continuously learn, improve, and deliver performance at scale.

Requirements

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors
Problem Management: Knowledge of the processes involved in problem control, error control and the production of management information or computer hardware; ability to identify the root cause of problems in a timely and accurate manner and bring them to a successful resolution.
Program Management: Knowledge of the policies and techniques to manage a set of related projects within a program; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control the set of projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve program objectives.
Change Control: Knowledge of the processes and procedures by which a change is identified, evaluated, approved, monitored and documented; Ability to manage changes in the production environment and processes effectively

Nice To Haves

3+ years of direct Scrum Master / Product Ownership experience working with software engineering teams in an agile environment
Experience using Azure DevOps (ADO)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) desired
Knowledge of Confluence desired
Knowledge of Power BI is desired

Responsibilities

Creating and managing the Product Backlog and to ensure everyone knows the priorities
Assisting the scrum team to meet the objectives of each sprint
Leading the Daily Scrum
Maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team
Acting as Product Owner for larger, more complex projects with high value to the organization
Creating, maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog according to business value for the life of the project
Communicating Product Backlog priorities to the team
Acting as the key decision-maker regarding what features the product will have
Responsible for the vision of what is to be built, and conveying that vision to the team
Collaborating with Lead Engineers on decomposition of epics and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint
Negotiating business requirements and their release dates with Product and development teams
Conveying the vision and goals at the beginning of every sprint
Defect management and prioritization
Working closely with key stakeholders throughout the organization
Making decisions on release dates and content
Representing the customer, interfacing and engaging with the customer