Scrum Master

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

Job Description: 

Ingram Micro touches 80% of the technology you use every day with our focus on Technology Solutions, Cloud, and Commerce and Lifecycle Solutions. With $50 billion in revenue, we have become the world’s largest technology distributor with operations in 64 countries and more than 35,000 associates.

Key Job Functions/Requirements

• Schedule and host PI Planning events for the scrum teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to facilitate cadenced based planning in support of quarterly program increments and in alignment with the strategic roadmap.
• Monitor processes, team structures and productivity tools to identify improvement opportunities.
• Identify trends that affect our ability to deliver predictably.
• Create initiatives and set goals to improve operational efficiency.
• Share program metrics that articulate planning progress and demonstrate program execution.  
• Collaborate with Product Manager, Delivery Leaders and Architects to maintain alignment toward program milestones.
• Coach the team on agile best practices to improve predictability.
• Lead up to two agile teams in conjunction with program management responsibilities.
• Host agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/demos and retrospectives. 
• Curate internal training content and process documentation to keep teams aligned on standard operating procedures, guardrails and best practices.
• Monitor dependencies and risks to ensure timely resolution and/or escalation to reduce bottlenecks and maintain steady flow of work
• May take on management responsibilities to support team of agile specialists.
• Start and stop Jira sprints on two week cadence
• Govern Atlassian configuration and change requests to optimize flow of work and minimize complexity
• Participate in leadership discussions with an agile perspective and data to help maintain objective and data driven solutioning.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Minimum Experience

• 10+ years software engineering/architecture
• 4+ years agile/scrum methodologies, SAFe certification beneficial
• Experience implementing enterprise level software applications
• Experience leading engineering teams

Specialized Knowledge & Skills

• SAFe Scrum Master certification
• Experience with Agile Management Tools (i.e. Confluence, JIRA, VersionOne)
• Experience with SCM including branching and merging
• Experience with Engineering and Implementing enterprise level software applications
• Experience with leading engineering teams
• Familiar with basic networking and infrastructure
• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for 3-4 years for a software development team
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
• Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
• Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices