Senior Scrum Master

Company: Duke Energy
Location: Charlotte, NC 28202 (Downtown Charlotte area)

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More than a career – a chance to make a difference in people’s lives.

Build an exciting, rewarding career with us – help us make a difference for millions of people every day. Consider joining the Duke Energy team, where you’ll find a friendly work environment, opportunities for growth and development, recognition for your work, and competitive pay and benefits.

Position Summary

As part of the Duke Energy Lighthouse team, you will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, energetic, and high performing organization helping to build groundbreaking technology to fundamentally transform the way we do business, providing our customers and communities the best possible experience so they choose to do business with us – not because they have to, but because they want to.

We are looking for SR Scrum Master who has experience with multiple agile methodology and emphasis on a pragmatic approach to practice and implementation. Candidates should embody the following characteristics:

  • Strong communication skills
  • Interacts effectively with others at all levels of the organization
  • Analytical, consulting and general change management
  • Holds a “growth mindset” summarized in these statements:
    • Views failure as an opportunity to grow
    • I can learn to do anything I want
    • Challenges help me grow
    • My effort and attitude determine my abilities
    • Feedback is constructive
    • I am inspired by the success of others
    • I like to try new things

Responsibilities

Drives planning, roadmaps, backlogs and decisions across multiple Agile teams

  • Participates in improvement and standardization activities across multiple Agile teams.
  • Assists in the execution of product vision.
  • Facilitates impediment resolution within teams and at the next level in a timely, cost effective manner.
  • Guides teams to successful agile practices and drive continuous improvement
  • Provide leadership, oversight management, delegation, and coordination to the various internal and external organizations.
  • Manages relationships of all matirixed members of the team on a day-to-day basis and is responsible for interfacing with functional managers, product owners, or Scrum Masters.

Exemplifies as servant leadership style; role models situations and behaviors for their teams to include:

  • A servant leader and coach for the agile teams. Mentoring team members and promoting agile thinking.
  • Drives multiple teams in resolving conflict or reporting escalated issues involving risk, or dependency management that may be hindering the team’s ability to deliver value.
  • Managing conflict and facilitating team decision making, enabling close cooperation across all roles and functions.

Drive Value Delivery for the product

  • Facilitate events and processes to assist the teams in delivering value.
  • Establish and maintain communications among all program stakeholders. Open and honest and yet tactful, knows audience, and understands how to facilitate change.

Required/Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Five (5) years of related experience
  • Nine (9) years of related experience without a degree
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience driving digital transformation in large organizations
  • Expertise in multiple Agile frameworks
  • Proficient in Agile scaling frameworks (e.g. SAFe, Scrum at Scale)
  • Experience moving teams and organizations from waterfall to agile methodologies
  • Excellent written, verbal and electronic communication skills
  • Interacts effectively with others at all levels of the organization; makes persuasive and informative presentations

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Travel Requirements

5-15%

Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)

No

Represented/Union Position

No

Visa Sponsored Position

No

Posting Expiration Date

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

All job postings expire at 12:01 AM on the posting expiration date.

Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must possess all of the basic/required qualifications.