We’re looking for a passionate, experienced and skilled Scrum Master with in-depth understanding of business operations to help us lead digital transformation within Schneider Electric’s North America Market (NAM). You will become part of an ERP Transformation team working with directly business teams, as well as respective Program Management teams as an Agile / SAFe expert. You will help us define, plan, and deliver iterative releases of our digital platforms. This position is in Nashville, TN and we are unable to consider remote candidates at this time.
Areas of responsibility
- The Scrum Master supports and champions Agile / SAFe and guides the team on being self-organized.
- Drive the daily development progress, conduct daily Stand-ups, identifies and helps remove roadblocks.
- Ensure User Stories are detailed, working with the Product Owner and Business Analysts to manage and prioritize the backlog regularly.
- Responsible for helping the team break down and detail roadmap items into Sprint deliverable User Stories at the team level, facilitate discussions, decision making, and manage conflict resolution.
- Negotiate with Development and QA, ensuring what is developed can be tested and ultimately delivered within the Sprint.
- Assist in triaging critical bugs that could impact the Sprint.
- Be the organizational leader for the team, providing support to the team so they can be fully functional and productive, removing impediments or shielding team from interference.
- Support the release train engineer and collaborate with other scrum leads to identify and resolve systemic barriers as well as opportunities leveraging successes.
- The Scrum Master is required to increase team efficiency, motivate the team(s), argue for changes that will ensure quality and timeliness, and ensure the Definition of Done (DoD)is being followed to deliver the most value to the customer.
Experience Requirement:
- Candidates considered for this role should have a BA/BS in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) and/or 5+ years of experience in information technology in business analyst and/or project management roles. MBA is a plus.
- Min 10 years total experience with a focus on Digital Transformations.
- Min 2 years in a Scrum Master role.
- **This role requires a robust understanding of, and experience, in business processes in either of the following fields – finance, customer support or manufacturing. THIS IS A MUST!
- Experience in backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity and task definition are essential too.
- The Scrum Master will have between 1 and 3 teams to lead. The Scrum Master will be in the Agile Release Train Scrum of Scrums to represent the team(s).
- Must have excellent skills and knowledge of communication, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Certifications in SAFe trainings is preferred.
*** Please note, this is not a traditional Scrum Master position. We are a mature Agile shop and are looking for a SM who can contribute to projects with strong business process transformation experience. This is NOT and Agile Transformation project.
This position offers a hybrid onsite work arrangement at our Franklin, TN location.
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