Scrum Master, Finance

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 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

Are you interested in shaping a Agile organization? Are you excited to influence and lead other accomplished technical contributors? Are you passionate about promoting important connections and developing a team who will help to make our company, partners, and customers more productive and profitable? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, this is your opportunity to join a creative and dynamic team. As a member of the Rockwell Automation IT organization

The Scrum Master, Finance is a member of an Agile software or embedded software development team. They are a Servant Leader who helps the team achieve its goals through effective Agile, Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), and Rockwell practices. You will work with 1-2 agile teams.

The Scrum Master, Finance understands, applies and coaches Agile and Lean principles within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). They create an environment for learning and helps the agile team coordinate dependencies with other teams and communicates status of these dependencies. You will collaborate with other agile capability teams to identify best practices and lessons learned to increase team and program performance.

Essential Functions:

• Coach team on established IT and corporate standards (e.g., security, quality, and architecture) to minimize operational and reputational risk
• Work to remove impediments in the organization so that the team achieves its goals
• Facilitate team and program
• Champion and facilitate adoption of Agile standards, tools, and best practices
• Help the team achieve and improve in areas including quality, predictability, flow, and velocity
• Facilitate Scrum, Agile and SAFe rituals including Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning, mid-Sprint review, Demo, Retrospective, and Inspect and Adapt workshops
• Coordinate solution implementation and delivery with other partners and external teams
• Communicate with all levels of the organization, including progress tracking and reporting
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team and program see how they are doing
• Balances changes in direction or requirements while protecting the team so the team can achieve committed goals
• Collaborate with Product Owner/s to ensure team execution and performance are aligned with goals - near and long-term

• Coordinate team efforts under architectural and portfolio governance
• Collaborate with the Technical Leader to build an Agile culture in teams
• Foster a high-performing team by focusing on ever-improving team dynamics and performance
• Help protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work
• Deal with conflicts, failure, and protect team by saying "no"

• Demonstrate servant leadership, facilitating and coaching rather than directing
• Work to empower teams and individuals

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering, with concentration in software; or equivalent relevant experience
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Typically requires at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience in Software Development/Test, Applications Engineering work, Technical Support
• Experience in Agile development environment
• In-depth knowledge of Agile methodologies and techniques
• Experience as a Scrum Master (with certification) or Agile Coach
• Previous experience in a leadership role
• Knowledge of Agile practices, frameworks, and techniques.
• Excellent people and project management skills.
• Coaching skills and ability to motivate teams.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Experience with Agile planning tools (e.g., Jira Align, Jira, Confluence)

*This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

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