Scrum Master jobs in Kalamazoo, MI

What you’ll do:

Job responsibilities:

• Accountable for all Agile ceremonies of a Scrum team including planning, review, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups, while supporting teams' ability to self-organize and self-facilitate
• Drive a Secure Product Development Lifecycle approach that establishes a strong cybersecurity focus and culture across the entire engineering lifecycle
• Trains, mentors, and supports Scrum teams and others within the enterprise to follow and deeply understand Agile values, principles, and practices
• Use Agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions
• Assists the Product Owner with roadmapping, epic creation, and decomposition and multi-sprint planning
• Support the estimation and prioritization of user stories
• Collect, track, and report Agile metrics on performance and progress
• Drive a culture of learning and continuous improvement
• Support the teams' ability to drive resolution of impediments and escalate where required
• Coordinate with other Agile teams to ensure alignment and management of dependencies including participation in Scrum of Scrums or related ceremonies where applicable
• Ensures a psychologically safe and environment for the team to raise and resolve issues
• Leads the capacity planning for each sprint
• Communicates risks, status and general updates to stakeholders
• Manage one or more Scrum teams across multiple geographies
• Improve the Agile maturity of the team on a continuous basis
• Support the Product Owner in cost tracking for scrum projects
• Manages project budget, estimates, approval submissions, capitalization and reporting
• Support Resource Managers with Vendor Management and contractor onboarding

Qualifications:

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 7 years of experience working on an Agile team or leading technology projects.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master / Project Manager.
• No relocation is offered for this position. All candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of one of the locations listed to be considered.

Preferred requirements:

• Scrum Master certification preferred.
• Understanding of Finance domain. FP&A exposure is an added advantage.
• Experience implementing Oracle EPM (EPBCS, FCCS, ARCS) across mid to large scale organization.

Skills:

• Experience leading highly complex projects, programs, and teams
• Experience leading change across a large, multinational enterprise
• Expertise working with Agile, including Scrum or Kanban, and how to practice Agile at scale
• Expertise with Agile software tools and producing Agile artifacts
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles
• Experience with modern software development principles including code management, test automation, APIs, microservices, and cloud services.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Patience and empathy working with mentees and people new to Agile
• Comfortable working directly with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Interact effectively with senior leadership
• Ability to lead enterprise-wide programs
• Excellent listening skills with the intention of understanding
• Experience working with diverse, global cultures, organizations and teams