About the position
Our Retail client with over $80B in annual revenue has over 2,000 stores, across 21 US states, with over 400,000 employees. This company is a leader in sustainable retailing with a passion for delivering excellence. By driving omni channel growth, efficiency in the shopping experience and continuing to develop with new technologies; this company is growing and developing continuing success. The leadership team strives for work-life balance for all its employees, with options for overtime if desired. This is a Senior Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager role who will support several high priority initiatives. Requires a seasoned, professional, and experienced scrum master with deep agile expertise as well as strong experience with waterfall project management who has proven success.
Responsibilities
- Deep knowledge and experience across agile practices
- Standing up new teams through 'sprint 0' activities
- Leading efforts in support of Product Management to develop the product roadmap in alignment with the team's backlog
- Understanding of both Scrum and Kanban team models
- Facilitating all scrum ceremonies and practices
- Leading teams consisting of both internal team members and external vendors
- Proven experience measuring and leading teams to improve delivery predictability
- Assessing teams' maturity through retrospectives, metrics, and observations
- Developing and executing a coaching plan to drive continuous improvements
- Providing coaching and training on targeted practices to enable improving a team's ways of working
- Working in a scaled agile environment (i.e. SAFe, or other scaling framework)
- Strong communication skills and relationship development
- Understanding of Waterfall Project Management, including strong issues, risk management, cost management, dependency management, etc.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge and experience across agile practices
- Experience standing up new teams through 'sprint 0' activities
- Experience leading efforts in support of Product Management to develop the product roadmap
- Understanding of both Scrum and Kanban team models
- Experience facilitating all scrum ceremonies and practices
- Experience leading teams consisting of both internal team members and external vendors
- Proven experience measuring and leading teams to improve delivery predictability
- Proven ability to assess teams' maturity through retrospectives, metrics, and observations
- Experience developing and executing a coaching plan to drive continuous improvements
- Experience providing coaching and training on targeted practices
- Experience working in a scaled agile environment (i.e. SAFe, or other scaling framework)
- Strong communication skills and relationship development
- Understanding of Waterfall Project Management
Benefits
- Work-life balance options
- Overtime options if desired
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