Scrum Master

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 25,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Summary/Scope of Position:

Position is located in Mequon WI

The Scrum Master is a member of an agile firmware development team. The Scrum Master is a servant leader who helps the team self-organize, self-manage, and achieve its goals via effective Agile, Lean, and ScrumXP practices. The Scrum Master will lead 1-3 developmental teams.

The ideal candidate understands, effectively applies and coaches Agile and Lean principles within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The Scrum Master creates and maintains an environment for continuous learning and relentless improvement.

In addition, the Scrum master supports the agile team coordinate dependencies with other teams and communicates status of these dependencies as needed. The successful candidate collaborates with other agile teams to identify, promote, and adopt best practices and lessons learned to optimize team and program performance.

Essential Functions:

Functional

• Collaborates with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure team execution and performance are aligned with business objectives (near as well as long term)
• Protects and guides team(s) towards achieving their committed objectives.
• Focused on removing impediments and retiring risks so that the development team(s) remain focused on achieving their goals
• Effective and timely communication to all levels of the organization, including progress tracking and reporting
• Maintains relevant metrics that help the team(s) assess their progress and highlight key achievements or areas of improvement
• Guides via influence rather than authority towards continuous improvement
• Initiates and fosters collaboration, open communication and team building
• Facilitates team and program level relentless improvements
• Helps assure the team follow ScrumXP/Agile best practices and product development processes
• Supports the team achieve and improve in areas including quality, predictability, flow, and velocity
• Facilitates ScrumXP, Agile and SAFe ceremonies including Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning, mid-Sprint review, Demo, Retrospective, and Inspect and Adapt workshops

Leadership

• Helps to create a culture of openness, honesty, and transparency
• Coordinates with other Scrum Masters and Shared Resources in planning meetings
• Helps manage the teams relationships with outside stakeholders
• Coordinates team efforts under architectural and portfolio governance
• Collaborates with an engineering manager to build an agile culture in teams
• Fosters a high-performing team by focusing on ever-improving team dynamics and performance
• Helps protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work
• Ability to deal with conflicts, failure, and protecting the team(s)

Interpersonal

• Acts as a role-model for addressing conflict and barriers to collaboration
• Demonstrates servant leadership, facilitating and coaching rather than directing
• Maintains a positive demeanor during periods of uncertainty, pressure, and conflict
• Works to empower teams and individuals

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Legal authorization to work is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, work permit, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of experience in Software Development/Test, Applications Engineering work, Technical Support, or another related role
• Typically requires a minimum of 4 years' experience in an Agile development environment
• In depth knowledge of agile methodologies and techniques is preferred
• Previous experience in a leadership role preferred
• Knowledge of, or experience with Rockwell Automation products or other industrial control equipment is preferred

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor.

We offer a Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can flex with your personal life.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.

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