Scrum Master

Capgemini • Brisbane, CA

7d • Remote

About The Position

The Scrum Master coordinates the work of an Agile development team and oversees the software development lifecycle. This role involves planning and facilitating scrum activities such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives. The Scrum Master collaborates with clients or end users to understand business requirements and acts as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure appropriate project processes are followed. Additionally, they identify and resolve impediments that may slow development or prevent the team from meeting established goals or milestones.
Ensure their team is able to organize and follow the scrum and Client processes (Product Development Process). Help ensure all their team members have taken the appropriate step on stories so their team is a well-oiled machine.

Requirements

• 7+ Years of related experience engineering field along with Bachelor’s degree in related technical field.
• Scrum Master with hands-on experience working with cross‑functional Agile teams across the following engineering disciplines: Mechanical / Electrical Engineering
• Electronics, Embedded Systems & Mechatronics
• Software Development & Validation / Testing
• Functional Safety
• Proficiency in scrum tools (e.g. JIRA)
• Certification (e.g., Certified ScrumMaster - CSM) is often preferred.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum framework.
• Works in the area of Software Engineering, which encompasses the development, maintenance and optimization of software solutions/applications.
• 1. Applies scientific methods to analyse and solve software engineering problems.
• 2. He/she is responsible for the development and application of software engineering practice and knowledge, in research, design, development and maintenance.
• 3. His/her work requires the exercise of original thought and judgement and the ability to supervise the technical and administrative work of other software engineers.
• 4. The software engineer builds skills and expertise of his/her software engineering discipline to reach standard software engineer skills expectations for the applicable role, as defined in Professional Communities.
• 5. The software engineer collaborates and acts as team player with other software engineers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate scrum activities, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ensuring the breakdown of work. Force the breakdown of stories into substories, tasks, spikes, etc.
• Help build the schedule for deliverables. (Development timeline, PMO would be ultimately responsible for the schedule). Resource mapping/loading, what is our capacity? (Project is what we need to do, team should be focused on who needs to do what).
• Strategically identify if the schedule requires more resources than the team currently has. Resource balancing.
• Collaborate with clients or end users to understand business requirements.
• Act as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure appropriate project processes are followed.
• Identify and resolve impediments that may slow development or prevent the team from meeting established goals or milestones.
• Work with team members on backlog and processes.
• Understand and remove impediments to the scrum process.
• Escalation of risk issues outside of the development group to other management levels. (if we fall behind during the sprint, we don’t just accept that, we try to push it and identify what can be done).

Benefits

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level