Sr. Specialist Scrum Master

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customer’s mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris, ForceX division is an industry leader specializing in Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) software development and geospatial application technology programs.Our tightly integrated hardware and software solutions enables front-line special operations aviators to save lives by allowing aircrew members to operate efficiently when protecting friendly ground forces.We are the Trusted Choice of End-Users in the Special Operations Aviation Community. Working at L3Harris ForceX puts you at the forefront of ongoing advancements in an exciting industry and makes you a valued contributor toward changing the way people interact with technology.We believe success comes from teamwork, enthusiasm and striving for excellence. Located in the vibrant West End area of Nashville, Tennessee near the University of Vanderbilt campus and Centennial Park, L3Harris ForceX is more than just a place to work. We are excited to offer an exceptional, comprehensive medical, dental, vision benefits package which includes company paid life insurance, three weeks paid time off, 11 paid holidays, flexible work hours (6:30 am to 7 pm), 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, free lunch on-site three days a week, access to our company suite at Bridgestone arena for concerts and sporting events, access to on-site gym, popping some popcorn for an afternoon snack, playing a friendly game of ping-pong, or perhaps designing something fun on the company 3-D printer, just to name a few. As you can see, we enjoy a culture of dedication, innovation and creativity where we approach work with a positive outlook every day, while at the same time, integrating and engineering software that interfaces with some of the newest and coolest hardware on the planet.

Job Summary:

The role of Scrum Master is a Servant Leader at L3 Harris.The Servant Leader is focused on team functionality.The Scrum Master is responsible for monitoring the Scrum/Agile processes to increase team efficiency by motivating and facilitating the scrum team to self-organization, higher quality, team ownership and driving the team to meet their deliverables.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Understanding agile values and principles and can guide and coach teams, and the organization.
• Guiding and coaching delivery teams to self-organize and achieve objectives, without assigning or dictating the work
• Mobilizing new teams to agile practices and values
• Facilitating all agile ceremonies efficiently to help team realize the value of the meetings to performance outcomes
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved
• Working effectively with management and team members to clarify needs and plan delivery of major product changes, future versions and new products
• Working to proactively manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, ensuring that they are identified, coordinated, mitigated or escalated as necessary
• Working with Product Owner and Development Team to facilitate effective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring that stories are ďż˝sprint readyďż˝
• Demonstrating servant-leadership while guiding the team to improve their processes all while challenging them to innovate and experiment
• Helping foster an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, and collaboration
• Facilitate Agile Scrum stand-up meetings, retrospectives, sprints, release planning and delivery of artifacts for the Scrum process for multiple teams
• Develop and report process metrics for real-time or historical presentation
• Administer and maintain systems used for Project Lifecycle Management
• Maintain current knowledge and keep updated on new relevant technology
• Provide support and lead special projects as needed
• Evaluating a teamďż˝s agile maturity using tools provided and successfully implementing action plans for improving agile maturity
• Coming to work with a can-do, get things done attitude necessary to maintain our awesome culture