Scrum Master

HAVI•Chicago, IL

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Scrum Master is an organizational servant-leader who works with agile delivery teams, product management, the leadership team, and other parts of the business to improve our ability to deliver value and quality to our customer base. This position will guide and serve teams that deliver technology solutions, through effective application of the Lean/Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban Method, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Requirements

Must have 3-5 years serving as an active Scrum Master in a software development environment.
Participated in Program Increment (PI) planning as a scrum master
Proven knowledge and practical experience of agile software development methodologies, values, principles, and practices.
Demonstrated leadership ability to coach and empower the team to reach their highest potential.
Excellent team player and team builder.
Ability to communicate and collaborate with personnel at all levels of the organization and with diverse personality types.
Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic and time sensitive work.
Ability to coach the team and help mature agile best practices environment with changing priorities.
Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
Must have strong familiarity with or experience working with SAFe.
Scrummed multiple teams including geographically dispersed teams in organizations with hybrid full-time and outsourced resources models.
Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
Must have CSM, PMI-ACP or SAFe 4.0 Scrum Master certification.

Nice To Haves

Industry experience in supply chain or logistics
Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience.
PMP, SA and/or SPC certifications are highly desired but not required.

Responsibilities

Ensures Scrum, Kanban and other agile methods are being followed as agreed to by the team
Proactively identifies and eliminates complex, organizational-level bottlenecks that hinder progress.
Facilitates Scrum events (planning, grooming, reviews, retrospectives) and ensures high-quality, on-time delivery of product increments.
Collaborates with Product Owners, engineering leaders, and management to align on strategy, roadmap, delivery and release plans.
Promotes transparency, drives continuous improvement, and implements scaling frameworks (e.g., SAFe, LeSS) across the organization.
Coach team members on Scrum and agile best practices
Governs the “Definition of Done” process to ensure product and engineering goals are being fulfilled, including, but not limited to: automated test results, security test results, automated CI and CD results and contractual deliverables
Works with the product development teams to address gaps in fulfilling “Done”.

Benefits

Possibility of turning your own ideas into success
Diverse development opportunities
Varied and interesting field of work
Responsible task with plenty of leeway
Collegial working atmosphere
Open corporate culture
Cooperation with a dynamic team
Attractive remuneration models with performance-related pay
Flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes
Successful and rapidly growing employer
Comprehensive, individual familiarization with the work
Offer for health promotion
Modern work equipment
Diverse development opportunities in an international environment
Training according to training schedule and training regulations in the relevant specialist field