Job Purpose:
As a Scrum Master youâll develop and lead high-performing, multi-discipline team, instilling in them a clear vision and a passionate drive. Youâll play a leading role in fulfilling the vision, driving the implementation of our products and setting standards for our teams to follow.
Responsibilities:
- Changing the culture of the company towards changes welcome culture based on transparency, trust and high-level collaboration.
- Ownership and accountability of establishing agile values, methods, principles and practices for the delivery of projects and products.
- A building of a self-organized team. Facilitate agile ceremonies, e.g. product backlog refinement, preplanning, planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives.
- Conflicts resolution.
- Enables the exploration of different agile approaches.
- Coach and mentor team members on agile standards and best practices, e., Lean, Kanban, Scrum, DevOps, SAFe etc.
- Manage stakeholders and vendors interfaces as required for the product.
- Challenging and improving the operation of the team, improving their performance and capabilities.
- Build operating models that value ownership, responsibility, responsiveness, predictability, and Remove blockers.
- Collaborate closely with Product Owner to prepare and clarify the product backlog.
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog
- As a problem solver, you eliminate conflicts, assist your team in developing appropriate solution strategies, and keep an eye on potential future tensions.
- You observe your team in the cooperation and the application of agile methods and deduce from it measures, e.g. training and de-escalations.
- Together, you and other (senior) Scrum Masters, agile specialists and coaches on all organizational levels work together.
- You represent the team interests towards relevant stakeholders and work out improvement for areas of tension within the agile transformation.
- Actively participates in communities.
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching them to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable.
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
- Support the team to improve their technical work by reviewing results and establish lessons learned as well as track the improvement. Facilitates getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
Knowledge Skills and Experience
- It is characterized by a high level of commitment and the will to develop high-performance teams.
- Basic IT and software development skills. Soft skills are more important for this role.
- A can-do attitude, result driven and openness to learning.
- Openness to new ideas and a desire to develop them together.
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
- Strong collaborative problem solver.
- Experience in coaching and training individuals and teams in Agile concepts and practices.
- Experience in facilitation, collaboration and soft-skills.
- Excellent communication skills and experience inside and outside of the teams. Scrum Master certification.
- Experience in agile practices using Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or LeSS.
- Willing to travel
- Ability to work in an international environment
- Language skills: very good English, one additional European language preferred
Join our team to connect the world with the power of technology!
Tech Data is an equal opportunity organization. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law. PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION: The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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