Sr Manager - IT & Solutions

Job Description

Responsible for designing software architecture and (or) delivery & deployment of the solution, driving automation, and improving operational efficiencies. This is a tactical role which defines the direction of new solutions, processes, standards based upon business strategy or customer need, with a significant mid-term impact on business unit overall results.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

Facilitate Scrum events and other ad-hoc meetings for teams. Facilitating multi-team events like Big Room Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and story mapping

Assist Product Owners and teams in story writing, backlog maintenance and prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs

Serve as teams or programs information radiator, representing the team or program to senior management, stakeholders and sponsors

Effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making at the team or program level

Facilitate estimation and planning at the team or program level. Assisting in creating useful, reliable and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases

Coach developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles

Help teams and individuals clarify goals, and actions to achieve them

Shield the team from outside distractions, context switching and interference

Track and remove impediments

Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching to higher levels of maturity

Build a safe environment with an emphasis on collaboration and problem solving

Skills And Experience We Are Looking For

12 to 15 years experience as a Scrum Master for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory

Prior knowledge or experience building and testing software or implementing DevOps(CI/CD Pipelines)

Knowledge of other approaches in the Agile space: Kanban, Lean, etc.

Experience with Jira, Bitbucket or GIT

Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, etc.

Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)

Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to communication anywhere from the team level to C-level executives.

Preferred Qualifications

Leadership role in a large-scale Agile transformation

Experience in Scrum Master and scaled Agile or transformation roles in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)

Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum and Agile, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.

Active participant in the Agile community