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Scrum Master - Mid Level
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 10 Months (Possibility of extensiom)
Job Description:
Must have 5-10 years of recent Scrum Master experience
Fully remote; may need to work global hours; may work with UK scrum team; would still stay most of the time in the norms of EST (8-5PM)
Need some flexibility and adaptable to working with a global team and address adhoc requestsCould support one or two teams
Backfilling someone going to another role in the company
Potential to work with UK scrum team
Retail POS and payments experience (heavy preference)
Oracle Xstore (preference)
Agile Scrum and SAFe (preference)
Experienced and adept user of Agile Lifecycle Management tools, particularly JIRA Align, JIRA Cloud, and Confluence (required)
Duties and Responsibilities:
As a true servant leader the Scrum Master is primarily responsible for ensuring that the Agile/Scrum team achieves its goals. Communicates status to customers, team and management as needed.
Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile leader with a Lean-Agile mindset. Helps the team embrace core Agile values and principles.
Leads scrum teams for medium to complex deliveries.
Leads the team's efforts in relentless improvement and facilitates the team's retrospective.
Facilitates all the team's meetings and ceremonies such as Daily Standups, Sprint Retrospectives etc. as well as meetings and activities spanning across multiple teams
Removes roadblocks, many of which will be beyond the team's authority or will require support from other teams.
Coordinates with various teams such as Infrastructure & Operations, Security, Landscape Services, Network, Performance Testing, Software Packaging, Product, and Engineering teams to resolve dependencies, blockers.
Ensures that goals and scope are understood by everyone on the Agile/Scrum Team.
Ensures the Team understands scrum theory, practices, rules and values.
Improves team performance by identifying, managing, and supporting resolution of team impediments and risks.
Displays an engineering mindset and systems thinking while understanding the economic view.
Embraces a continuous improvement mind-set and highlights opportunities to improve efficiency of scrum teams.
Leads and facilitates deployment of changes to Production by adhering to TJX processes.
Skills & Knowledge:
Oracle Xstore (preference)
Agile Scrum and SAFe (preference)
Experienced and adept user of Agile Lifecycle Management tools, particularly JIRA Align, JIRA Cloud, and Confluence (required)
Communicative and collaborative -- excellent interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types.
Assertive -- must be able to ensure agile and scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, and not afraid to be a voice of reason and authority.
Situationally Aware -- must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to team and to management, where appropriate.
Creativity, initiative, and flexibility - tempered by pragmatism, patience and attention to detail.
Strong Facilitation Skills - ability to run improvement/problem solving sessions across multiple teams and larger groups.
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 10 Months (Possibility of extensiom)
Job Description:
Must have 5-10 years of recent Scrum Master experience
Fully remote; may need to work global hours; may work with UK scrum team; would still stay most of the time in the norms of EST (8-5PM)
Need some flexibility and adaptable to working with a global team and address adhoc requestsCould support one or two teams
Backfilling someone going to another role in the company
Potential to work with UK scrum team
Retail POS and payments experience (heavy preference)
Oracle Xstore (preference)
Agile Scrum and SAFe (preference)
Experienced and adept user of Agile Lifecycle Management tools, particularly JIRA Align, JIRA Cloud, and Confluence (required)
Duties and Responsibilities:
As a true servant leader the Scrum Master is primarily responsible for ensuring that the Agile/Scrum team achieves its goals. Communicates status to customers, team and management as needed.
Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile leader with a Lean-Agile mindset. Helps the team embrace core Agile values and principles.
Leads scrum teams for medium to complex deliveries.
Leads the team's efforts in relentless improvement and facilitates the team's retrospective.
Facilitates all the team's meetings and ceremonies such as Daily Standups, Sprint Retrospectives etc. as well as meetings and activities spanning across multiple teams
Removes roadblocks, many of which will be beyond the team's authority or will require support from other teams.
Coordinates with various teams such as Infrastructure & Operations, Security, Landscape Services, Network, Performance Testing, Software Packaging, Product, and Engineering teams to resolve dependencies, blockers.
Ensures that goals and scope are understood by everyone on the Agile/Scrum Team.
Ensures the Team understands scrum theory, practices, rules and values.
Improves team performance by identifying, managing, and supporting resolution of team impediments and risks.
Displays an engineering mindset and systems thinking while understanding the economic view.
Embraces a continuous improvement mind-set and highlights opportunities to improve efficiency of scrum teams.
Leads and facilitates deployment of changes to Production by adhering to TJX processes.
Skills & Knowledge:
Oracle Xstore (preference)
Agile Scrum and SAFe (preference)
Experienced and adept user of Agile Lifecycle Management tools, particularly JIRA Align, JIRA Cloud, and Confluence (required)
Communicative and collaborative -- excellent interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types.
Assertive -- must be able to ensure agile and scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, and not afraid to be a voice of reason and authority.
Situationally Aware -- must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to team and to management, where appropriate.
Creativity, initiative, and flexibility - tempered by pragmatism, patience and attention to detail.
Strong Facilitation Skills - ability to run improvement/problem solving sessions across multiple teams and larger groups.
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