What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hands On Manager - Agile/Scrum position at Request Technology, LLC?
A prestigious company is looking for a Manager, Agile / Scrum Governance. This manage will lead a team of 7-8 scrum masters and will focus on Agile transformation across the company. They will create a governance structure to monitor performance, build agile teams, and implement agile specific metrics and KPIs. This is a hands on manager and will need experience with formal management.
Responsibilities :
- Directly manage a team of Scrum Masters deployed across several product teams and partner with managed service provider
- Hold Scrum masters accountable to their roles and responsibilities and create a governance structure to monitor performance.
- Partners with the group director and senior leaders across the organization to develop best practices and evolve Agile capabilities with the changing needs of the business.
- Be responsible for “maturing” Agile teams / squads.
- Provide support to the Product Owner and Delivery Team, and lead by example.
- Participate in and lead discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Drive a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved.
- Be responsible for identification and mitigation of project risks
- Participate in and lead regular assessments of Agile Maturity and use the results to guide teams to improved performance
- Drive internal and external communication, improving transparency, and information radiation
- Manages a team
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology or 7 years equivalent work experience
- Advanced knowledge of Agile / Scrum principles and practices
- Hands on experience in leading and managing agile teams
- Experience as a Scrum Master for a minimum of 5 years for a software development team that was applying Agile / Scrum principles and practices
- 5 years of experience with JIRA
- Manage a team of 7-8 direct reports and outsourced resources.
- Experience with agile transformations, building Agile teams and implementing Agile
- Experience with setting and implementing Agile specific metrics and KPI’s
- Previous experience leading scrum masters and driving career development of direct reports
- Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (diverse team sizes, organizations, cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
- Direct experience working with Scaled Agile (SAFe) organizations
- Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
- Knowledge of other agile approaches : XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
- Experience with Agile PLM tools like JIRA, Portfolio for JIRA
- Familiarity within a ticketing system such as ServiceNow
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