IT Infrastructure Scrum Master / Project Manager

Company: MathWorks
Location: Natick, MA 01760

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Do you want to help ensuring successful and expedient delivery of features, tools, and IT Infrastructure? On this role you will support multiple IT scrum teams and help them improve their agile maturity with the purpose of delivering projects, features, and minimum viable products in a predictable and efficient way.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitates daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, and demos.
  • Plans projects and releases.
  • Tracks and communicates team velocity, sprint/release progress, and projects status.
  • Coaches teams to achieve higher levels of agile maturity.
  • Assists as needed with backlog maintenance.
  • Communicates status of projects and releases.
  • Identifies and removes impediments.
  • Facilitates discussion and conflict resolution.

Minimum Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s degree and 7 years of professional work experience (or a master’s degree and 5 years of professional work experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

  • 5+ years project management experience, including 2+ years of Scrum Master experience in an IT organization.
  • Ability to understand technical issues.
  • Self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
  • Team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
  • Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential.
  • Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
  • Collaborative in driving decisions.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
  • Preferred: Scrum master (CSM, PSM) or PMI-ACP certification.
  • Preferred: Experience with Jira.