SCRUM Master

Wesco • Mesa, AZ

5h • Remote

About The Position

As a Scrum Master, you will coordinate a cross-functional Agile development team utilizing the principles and tools of the Scrum Framework. You will assume a servant leadership role to support self-organized teams to complete Scrum projects. You will proactively identify and remove impediments, foster continuous improvement, and partner closely with Product Owners, leaders, and fellow Scrum Masters. You will facilitate sprint planning events, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. You will support, coach and mentor team members and facilitate collaborative interactions and events aimed at delivering business value in a scaled environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required in Business, Agile, Project Management related disciplines.
• 3+ years of prior experience on a Scrum Team.
• 3+ years experience with Lean and implementing a Kaizen mindset.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, coaching, teaching and mentoring skills.
• Must have a bias for action and be comfortable in an ever changing or ambiguous environment.
• Embody the Scrum Values: Openness, Respect, Courage, Commitment and Focus.
• Ability to create and sustain an environment of psychological safety and trust among team members and between the team and the larger organization.

Nice To Haves

• A credential from the Scrum Alliance, Scrum Inc, Scrum.org, or ICAgile preferred.
• Tech savvy, experience with project and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro and Office 365 preferred.
• Encourage an experimental and fail-fast and learning mindset preferred.
• Experience working with teams applying DevSecOps capabilities to achieve delivery speed and operational stability preferred.
• Experience in a scaled frameworks especially but not limited to Scrum @ Scale preferred.
• Work with teams from a variety of technical domains, including but not limited to warehouse management systems, ERPs, financial systems and data-warehouses preferred.
• Remote work with the ability to travel to office locations as needed

Responsibilities

• Coach and mentor teams on Lean, Agile, and Scrum/Kanban principles and best practices
• Manage software delivery timelines, milestones, and deliverables across multiple teams, ensuring teams are aligned on priorities and dependencies
• Implement team metrics and reporting for visibility into delivery health
• Coordinate release planning, ensuring team capacity, manage cross-team dependencies, and proactively resolve risks and impediments
• Drive continuous improvement in software development practices by actively guiding teams towards predictable delivery
• Facilitate team events that bring out the ideas of everyone on the team. Ensure the outcomes of the events are achieved
• Foster a Kaizen mindset within and outside the teams
• Help the teams remove their own barriers, leverage scaled events to remove barriers the team is unable to remove and challenge organizational impediments
• Partner with the Product Owner/s, Scaled Product Owner to be in sync; ensure alignment of the Product vision, goals, delivery of customer-centric products and maintain a healthy backlog
• Works with teams and Agile Coaches where necessary to co-create and refine team working agreement, definition of "ready", and definition of "done" and a coaching backlog
• Coach the team and leaders and empower the team’s ability to solve problems
• Participate in scaling adoption and scaled events, including cross-team planning, delivery synchronization, dependencies and systems-level inspect & adapt

Benefits

• For eligible positions, compensation may include participation in a bonus or sales incentive plan, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plan documents.
• For certain sales roles, Wesco also offers a commission structure that provides additional compensation based on sales results, as defined by the applicable commission plan.
• In addition, Wesco offers a benefits program for eligible employees, which may include paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage, and retirement savings plans.
• Additional details about benefits are available here.

What This Job Offers

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