Scrum Master

Requisition ID : 85417

Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., delivering clean, affordable, and dependable electricity to over 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation's cleanest power generation fleets and top-tier reliability, we are setting new standards in the energy industry. Ready to make an impact? Join our exceptional team today and help shape the future of energy!

Position Specific Description

This position plans, executes, and finalizes projects, according to schedule and within budget. Candidates in this role acquire resources and coordinate the efforts of team members including third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan. Individuals define project objectives and oversee quality control throughout the project life cycle.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing multiple and complex projects
• Tracks, promotes, and publishes completed program initiatives, epics and business value metrics following Agile methodology
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives).
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and manage multiple priorities.
• Proactive problem-solving attitude and willingness to take ownership.
• Coach the team on Agile and Scrum principles and practices.
• Manages risk and dependencies, communicates and escalates impediments to facilitate transparency, and reduces bottlenecks
• Ensures adherence to - / 5% say / do ratio to budget
• Deep experience with the Agile development methodology and tools such as Atlassian Jira software is a must have.
• Provides formalized, continuing work direction and leadership to assigned team(s) to ensure timely and effective project execution
• Builds knowledge of the organization, processes, and customers
• Solves a range of straightforward problems
• Analyzes possible solutions using standard procedure
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned
• Maintain thorough knowledge of new development and / or SDLC techniques.
• Owns the planning, estimation, design, configuration, testing, and production release on financial projects which typically involve and impact multiple business areas.
• Interacts with business leadership and key stakeholders to gather requirements, estimate effort / cost, prioritize work, develop enhancements, coordinate testing, and perform change management.
• Promotes and encourages collaboration and transparency and builds trusting relationships between business, delivery, and other entities within the organization
• Ability to coach and mentor teams towards self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Preferably certified PMP or Agile Safe SPC certified.

Job Overview

This job provides leadership and direction to an Agile team, serves as an expert in the Scrum process, and enforces Scrum rules and framework. Employees in this role organize and facilitate release and sprint planning sessions, daily stand-up meetings, sprint demos, retrospectives, story refining sessions, and related activities. Leaders in this job embrace and display servant leadership behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with being Agile and facilitate the team becoming self-managing and high-performing.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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Employee Group : Exempt

Employee Type : Full Time

Job Category : Information Technology

Organization : Florida Power & Light Company

Relocation Provided : No

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