Scrum Master

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Company: Shell
Location: Houston, TX

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The Role

What’s the role:

Applies agile mindset and practice so that the team can deliver value early and frequently. Coaches the team to perform better, acts as its servant-leader and helps remove any impediments. Continuously improves ways of working through ‘inspect and adapt’ and instilling a growth mindset. Helps others understand how the team works and how to interact with it. Facilitates various Scrum (or other) ceremonies, ensuring equal contribution from each team member and helps maintain motivation and camaraderie.

Accountabilities:

  • Teaching, mentoring and coaching individuals, teams, and leadership to understand and apply Agile and Lean values, principles, and practices.
  • Working across organizational boundaries and with external partners and suppliers to cultivate an Agile community; driving effective practice embedding.
  • Involving people in change and influencing through others to ensure that IT (and the wider business) understands Agility – and how we can derive maximum value from it.
  • Maximizing efficiency, driving out waste and pinpointing activities that add value.

Requirements

What we need from you

  • Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.
  • Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
  • Minimum three (3) years’ relevant experience with agile teams.
  • Must have experience in IT Software Development.
  • Experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques to enhance the scrum approach required.
  • Knowledge and experience of other agile and DevOps approaches is desirable.
  • Experience in release planning, backlog grooming, estimation techniques, facilitate prioritization, sprint planning, capacity planning, daily scrum meeting, retrospective, sprint reviews is a must.
  • Experience in presenting different metrics to various stakeholders (status reports, burn down charts etc.).
  • Experience with eCommerce / Web Application Development / Mobile App development preferred.
  • Experience using .NET / Mobile / Java / salesforce preferred.
  • Experience in oil, gas or renewables preferred.

Company Description

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with about 84,000 employees across more than 70 countries. We aim to meet the world’s growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible. We have expertise in exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of chemicals. As a global energy company operating in a challenging world, we set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors. We are judged by how we act and how we live up to our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people. Our Business Principles are based on these. They promote trust, openness, teamwork and professionalism, as well as pride in what we do and how we conduct business. Building on our core values, we aspire to sustain a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels respected and valued, from our employees to our customers and partners. A diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment are vital to our success, leading to greater innovation and better energy solutions.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

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